Lamonby Walk

When Tom nominated this walk in the Eden Valley earlier this week his comments on the e mail to all of us was "flat and bland". How wrong he was it was neither flat or bland and proved to be quite a challenge in absolutely superb weather. The route started and finished in Lamonby and took us through Greystoke Forest and on to the village of Hutton Roof and then back via fields and lanes to Lamonby. It took us a full 5 hours and was measured as just under 12 miles. One amusing incident was with David's Old English Sheepdog Bowman who walks in front of us most of the time but looks back every now and again to see we are ok. He is very much in charge of the walking group and at one point Tom had held back to answer a call of nature when Bowman noticed he was about 50 yards behind us. He took off to go back and see that Tom was ok and once he had established Tom was catching up on us he took his place at the front again.