I can always recall in my early years of walking... five years ago January 2015.... Came up to Caldron Snout after walking up the Pennine Way along riverside from Langdon Beck, not my favourite walk by any means! It was getting dark and out of nowhere a guy appeared, after a short chat he said 'have you heard about High Cut Nick', I had not.... 'you must walk from here to it, I won't say much but this is a fantastic destination walking from here'.
On checking route and distance it was way longer than I'd walked before so had to get in a bit of practice!
Can see from my Mapometer records I went on 9th September 2015 after putting in a few miles, although 7 miles was the most I had been able to achieve. Again I recall the day, weather forecast was good, but when I arrived you could not see anything for the fog and it was freezing! Was well prepared as once had issues up here in May with snow cutting off half our party, and one car was stuck up here for five days! T-shirt, sweat shirt, jumper, coat, scarf, hat and gloves required, before setting off. Had to walk to the very low water mark of the reservoir to then turn left and follow round until I found the dam. As I stated to move up hill I startled three black grouse sitting on the gate as I opened it, that's how bad it was! Eventually it started to clear but was still icy cold. First people I met was a group of about seven students coming towards me in t-shirts and shorts, you lot are in for a shock in a minute! Walked along recently 'rocked' grouse shooting road was terrible, once off it and back down towards river it was fine. The guy was right about the view, spent a while there taking it all in and enjoying the warm sunshine. I was doing OK on journey back until just before the dam when the legs basically stopped moving! It took an absolute age to get to the car park and collapse into the car!! Memorable day as you can tell!
Hope your walk was as memorable strawy.
Have walked to Source of the South Tyne from Garrigill, where you can see River Tees going along towards Cross Fell. Have you ever looked at going along there from Cow Green?
Sorry ninthace, as someone who enjoyed his beer I somehow lost the ability to cope with any alcohol, .... devastating news at the time but saved me a fortune since!... so I'm afraid pubs have lost my interest.
