Winding between the Cumbria fells the Kirkstone Pass, locally referred to as “The Struggle”, rises steeply from the valley floor connecting Ambleside’s Roth Valley to the Ullwater Valley. Pausing several nights just over the crest at the Kirkstone Pass Inn (highest inn in Cumbria and in service since 1496), a backpackers paradise, I spent my days roaming the majestic hills and evenings among a myriad of evermore kindred spirits.
"Who comes not hither ne'er shall know
How beautiful the world below;
Nor can he guess how lightly leaps
The brook adown the rocky steeps." - Willam Wordsworth
The descent...
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