Thursday, 30 July 2009

22-30/7/09

22/07/09
The AFG visited here (After Fiveways Group)
We thought it was great!
Enquiries – AFG@HOTMAIL.CO.UK

22-7-09
Luke & Thomas
Grandma & Grandpa
Total age: 155 years
It was great.

24th July ‘09
Kirsten, Murray, Mum, Dad, Grandma & Granda!
Dad’s birthday!
Happy 47th birthday!
From Aberdeen in Scotland
Woooo!

24-7-09
Roger from B/W

24/7/09
Yahoo!
We made it with the help of Haribo.
Amy & Laura

25.7.09
Dunford family from Leeds

At last we mae it to the top. I am absolutely shattered. What a great walk. We had a great time and are now going to get fish and chips.
Guy, Ben, Matt, Hannah (zzz ha ha) & Tavy x

26.7.09
We were up here on New Year’s Day and it was warmer.
However the dogs are just as badly behaved.
It is always beautiful here though.
Carol & Raul

27/7/09 J.V. 6.00pm
Very windy. Bright sun. Super!

29th July ‘09
9.37am, very windy, very misty and no food in the tin! Ha Ha
Gaz Googe Ulv

30/7/09
Neil M (Lake Bank) up here again!

30/7/09
Matthew Parks aged 6
Tom aged 4
We walked all the way up!

Monday, 20 July 2009

11-20/7/09

11th July
Lovely to be back here again. Wonderful walk at the end of a lovely week.
Ian and Julia Jackson

Karen & Graham Proctor
13/7/09
Bringing the 2 Gremlins next time.

16/7/09
Jonah 9 had a nice swim in the tarn. Hope to come back.
This is an awesome book. Rock on.
MJ lives!

11.7.09
3 geocaching twerps, Ninja Pirate, Windywalkers & Donaldrinho stumbled upon this fine summit after a day’s slavery at Royal Mail. The cosmopolitan nature of the visitors has thus been further enhanced by the addition of 2 of us from Dalton-in-Furness & the other slag heap (Windy) from Barrow. The only disappointment was that there are no cookies left.

12/7/09
Tina & Charlie Chatburn with our friend Chris & Terry – nearly got blown away – but a great walk. Thanks Chris. I’m sure we will return!

12/7/09
Woo Hoo made it to the windy top, for a deserved treat of millionaires shortbread. Mmm 
Mike, Sheen & Lorna

15/7/09
Best place in the world!
Eirwen & John Coe

Eve I had a great swim with my brother Jonah it is great but long
I will be back ha ha ha!
Beware
16/07/09

Hi! Future reader of this scawesome (scarily awesome) book!
This walk is good but too uphill for my taste!!! My brother and sister Jonah & Eve went in the lake but i didn’t want to because of the frog beast. The native monster of this tarn. It is 5x the size of a normal toad and has 2 inch long fangs that will kill you from the venom on them. But they are scared of the colour blue so wear blue if you’re swimming because even though they live at the deepest part of the tarn they are very good jumpers!!!
Hope you enjoy the rest of your walk be careful not to get stuck in the bog and remember to tell your friends and people you know about the legend of the frog beast so it will live on in the memory of your knowledge!
Peace out dudes!!
Live a long happy life!
Be awesome!
Megan Myers 2/2/95
N Ireland but native to Bristol

This walk rules
Andrew B (Ulverston)
It’s very windy!
Lexi Brockbank (Ulverston)
18/7/09

18-7-09
Tim Price & Linda Bentley
Linda got up here with ease. Tim another story.
Have a fag on me

19/7/09
From HF Monk Coniston
pinkmoose

7-19-09
Visitors from Washington DC
Katie & Kathleen

19-7-09
Training for my trek in Nepal for the Prince’s trust – it’s fabulous up here!
Frances Padall

19 July 2009 I’m training for Nepal too! Fabulous week in beautiful scenery.
Sandra R Lawes

19 July 2009 Lovely day, fair weather cumulus and a cooling breeze. So peaceful up here, just the sound of bees buzzing and wind in the grass.
Rob & Gill
From Cambridge, England

20/07/09
Bob, Daphne, Tom
Lovely views, day –
locals from Rampside - Barrow

Thursday, 9 July 2009

2-9/7/09

2/7/09
Beautiful sunny day. Came up from Crake Valley camp site. The birds have been serenading us the whole way. Paddles in the tarn. What a wonderful world.
Jo & William

4th July 2009
“I’m gonna be a Star!”
Lovely view on a lovely day.
Mark & fellow stags.
I’m with him! And thanks for the lollie-pop!
David Rushmer
I’m with him
Tim E
He’s with me.

4 July
Dave & Eleanor Sheffield
Lovely day & view (at present! – might rain).

4/7/09 David, Carol & Kelly Knowles & Jetty the dog
(from Cleveleys, Lancs)
A lovely walk for Kelly’s birthday!

4/06/09
Grandad, Grandma, Mum (with bump) & Daf & Wispa (Choc Lab).
Great walk, great view – hungry dog! Could sit here all day?
The Rigbye’s, Wigan

Keswick Ramblers B Group was ‘ere

4th July
Just parked our spaceship on the landing ground here. Are staying for the weekend then going back to Mars.

6th July 2009
Fantastic view!!
Lovely walking, nice and steady.
Sorry I just missed the spaceship!!
Elaine, Richard & Dodge dog
Nottingham

5th July 2009
Glad to be on top of the Beacon again after nearly a year not being able to fell walk.
Weather warm and humid.
Yvonne & Ronnie Williams

5th July 2009
Rod & Dave
A small prayer for John Clifford of Paisley – who has cancer.

7th July ‘09
Dad, Sue, Helen & Ross (and Tess the black fell terrier) having gingerbread & tea, thoughts of Mum resting peacefully over on White Pike.
Good to be here.
Xx

8th July 2009 11.35am
John & Mary Needham
Dray day, little overcast. Enjoyable walk.
Hope this is kept up.
(Kirkby-in-Ashfield – Notts)

8th July
Jonathan Edwards & Kath Pickhall 12.40
Fine, overcast – 2 people only at tarn.
We are going to Coniston via Torver Tarn & paths onwards.

Worth flying economy from Australia for this view alone. That Kirsten A Taylor is with us makes it all the more perfect. Where’s the pub?
Jodie & Steffen Pfarr
Melbourne
(formerly Ulverston)
July 8, 2009

I am lucky to be here with my special peeps Jodie & Steffy (but Jona had to work)
Windy but sun pokes thru. Salvones tonight with the Evening Mail posse. Can’t wait. Kirsten & Miriam are married & all is well with the world. Nibbles next? 3 Shires?
Kirsten A Taylor 8th July 2009

Barrow Ramblers Thurday evening walk led by Alan Parker. Pat Pudsey’s first walk since breaking her ankle. Black clouds above but lovely sunset developing.
09/07/09

Monday, 29 June 2009

21-29/6/09

Midsummers Day 21.06.09
Sorry the last logbook has gone but this one reminds me of writing in it on New Years day.
Fabulous today – clear views but just starting to spot with rain.
Thanks for the tin.
Lynne Dave Mollie & Louis

Midsummers Day
It was exciting to meet the Goblin here on his special day of the year. We mae our three wishes that he granted us and are waiting to see what will happen.
Dave & dogs

Coming from Germany I had a nice walk up here with HF
Marta and the others

Verwood Ramblers 21/6/09

Perfect views a magic day!! A full contingent of heaton offspring, Smiths, Snowdons, ? & a Hooligan, happy days.
Ben & Co

Glorios day, wonderful views.
Sheer bliss.
Peter & Maddy 23/6/09 10.55am

A perfect day. We have walked this fell for 27 years and every time is special.
L&I 23/6/09 noon

23/6/09
Love what you’ve done with the place!
The Egan family Suffolk

Nice day, nice view, nuf said
TL 24/6/09

24/6/09
A beautiful morning and a great walk – for all this!
This will become a wonderful memory when I’m back home!
M van der Klooster, The Netherlands

It was wonderful, and a nice idea of that Beacon Fell Treasure Chest!
W M van der Klooster
Holland,Werkendam

24-06-09
On the Outer (Outlyers) Wainwrights on a continuous walk to link them all up. Last year the 214’s in sog. This year superb blue skies – will it last?
Paul & Gill Mackrill

24/6/09
A Beautiful clear day, for a change!
The Sewell family, Bucks

24/6/09 noon
Pete from Blackpool doing AW’s Outlying Fells. Gorgeous day, gorgeous view! Off for a dip in the tarn!!  Enjoy!

25-06-09
Amazing place! I’ve just been proposed to for the 2nd time by my husband – can’t believe he is so wonderful. My best friends in the world are with us – we’re drinking champagne!
Karen, Kevin Jarvis
Lynne, Andy Harmer
Linton, Cambridge

25.6.09
Bright & sunne, a wonderful place
Jen & Paul

25.6.09
Balanced very precariously
V windy but great!
Sally & Chris, Kinlet, Shropshire

27-6-09
Humid & overcast – but still a beautiful view & enjoyable walk in a quiet area.
Sue & Roger – York. John – Carlisle

27-6-09
Enjoying our short walk from Blawith via Kiln Bank. Very pleasant. Warm, very humid, slight breeze. This is the last day of our holiday, walking in the lakes – fantastic week!
Andrew & Catherine Philipson & Nellie the collie!
Cark-in-Cartmel

29/6/09
HOT!
We are all roasting!
We went for a paddle in ‘trout tarn’. We found 3 leeches, Fred, Geraldine and Fred the 2nd! Now we have to walk all the way down again, I think we might all melt!
Liz, Fraser, Colin, Kirsten, Matilde
Neale, Helen, Jemmy, Suzie & Digger

29/6/09 12-05pm
Graham, Annich & Buster (our 2 yr old Golden Retreiver).
Very ‘hot’. Annich happy, down hill from now on. Fantastic views of God’s creation. Who needs to go abroad when we have all this.
Rochester, Kent

Monday, 15 June 2009

11-15/6/09

14th June 2009
Pat’s 70th birthday
Steph, Mark & Paul
Placed a rock for Pat who did not make it up the hill. X

Thurs 11th June
Dark clouds to the North but we’re looking S. & E. at the sun on the sea, sheltered from the wind. Lovely lakes day!
Jim & Angela

Love the tin – first time ever have seen ? (partner) put something in!
If you’re up here with Neave – don’t forget to carry her back down.
Brilliant

Saturday 13th June 09
The view is worth the climb.
A sunny day enhances the view.
Jen & Ruth Read Perth W Australia
The majestic views are exhilarating and majestic or rather awesome.
Lyn and Geoff Sach Perth W Australia
Welcomed by Painted Lady
Peter Wardle, Lake Bank

14th June Sunday 12.30
Kate, Ali, Jen & Lin, Beulah, Keeper & Fin
Hooray – made it to the top – lovely hot sunshine & good breeze. Boats look lovely on the lake & so do all the fells. Beacon Tarn will be good for the dogs and all their mud.

14th June ‘09
On top of the world!
Ben (5) & Anna (3) with Mummy, Daddy, Pa Pa and Gran, and Auntie Luci – with 3 doggies!

So nice to be retired.
Walter Wall
15/6/9

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

2-9/6/09

2nd June 09
Wow – I haven’t walked in ages! It’s taking its toll but more than worth it when you get to the top.
I didn’t even know the tin & logbook existed until my trusty guide (who thankfully dragged me up here) told me about it. Thank you to its creators not least of all because it means I can have a wee sit down.
Love Kat Ford

2/6/09
V. hot. Coniston looks inviting. Off for a swim.
Sean

2/6/09
I’m the guide. Couldn’t believe my friends hadn’t been up here!!
Joe

2/6/09
Clare Rick Toby Mowgli (the dog!) Chris + EV
Great walk, views amazing & so is the weather. Chris had a good swim in the tarn!
Byeeee

3/6/09 11.15am
Brian Hartlebury
Sun just beginning to shine through but a little breezy.
www.stridingedge.net is superb. Keep it up.

4.6.2009
Obdivujeme krasy Lake District!
Clenove KCAR (TARS) z Ceske republiky
Ivan ? Moelie
Lea Pickova

5/6/09 2.30pm
Breezy & drizzly today after some superb sunny days.
Michael & Dexter again
Enjoy the Twixes!
www.whitecottage.org

Sun 7th June 09
Dave & Shelly
Very windy but still a lovely walk. Keep up the good work.

7th June 09
Gaz & Wanny
First time fell walking for big Wanny – where’s the oxygen tank & mask ha ha! Wot a view.

7 June 2009
Doing part of the Wainwright “Outlying Fells” walk – still sunny.
Lindsay & David from Surrey

Broken cloud, light wind, mild, perfect.
We all loved the walk & our dogs the swim. The reward is always at the top, the fantastic view, but something extra today, a treasure chest, made fascinating reading while having our picnic. Thank you.#Jenny & Mick – North Devon
& Ben & Molly (our cocker spaniels) who are very muddy & happy

EVE Monday 9th June
Light cloud but clear.

Sunday, 31 May 2009

17-31/5/09

Josie & Doug 17/05/09
All the way from Cape Town – SA. Lake District has welcomed us in style with what it does best – rain!
But wonderful to be here, out running on the fells!

19/5/09
Roy & Ian Phillips
Made it to the top through the rain & wind. A very good walk.
Enjoy your curly-wurly’s

19 May 09
Mark Valentine & the dogs
Lovely walk with great views of the lake and mountains.
Hope youe walk is just as enjoyable.

21st May ’09 (year of the recession)!!!
‘The true antidote to greed is contentment.’
Dali Lama

21st May MMIX
Sublime view north to the rest of the fells. Pefect day for a walk.
Joe Hune

22/5/09
The cloud is just on the mountain tops with the sun shining on ours.
We think this is one of the best views in the lake district.
Love finding this little treasure tin. Cheers
Claire, Mike, Arran & May Tomes

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Mike Tomes

22.5.09
Alice said it was good fun & she even managed to get her Granny up here (65 yrs in Armani’s!)
James P Yo!
Alice P Yo!

24/05/09
Made the hill in good time, great views all round.
Sam fell in the bog on way up so had to jump in the tarn.
Love from Sam, Steve, Tracey and Aslam the dog

24/05/09
Beautiful views all round, cool breeze.
Can recommend RiverDeepMountainHigh.com (go back a couple of pages)
Gordon & Sheila

24.5.09
Hello, my name is Ben Cross. I’m thirteen!
This is a nice walk but it’s going to be hard getting down.
Have a good walk
Ben Cross

25 May 09
My name is Cerys and I am 6 years old. This was my second mountain I have climbed. I came with 8 other people.

25/5/09
Jack, Bro, Isla, Niamh, Ian, Dee, Ron, Paul, Cath, Jorden
We love Cumbria. Just been eaten by leeches in the tarn! Wooo!

My lovely wife & I enjoyed this wonderful view many times. How I wish she were here with me today.
Ron McCol

Love Cumbria tis cool, started about 2 hours ago, cut my leg at the start “ouch!” Just swam in the tarn, it was freezing! Had fun though woopee!

We went swimming in the tarn in are underwear! We will never forget it! X

We come here every year, we will never stop coming here. We miss Nan but we have great memories of her
Niamh

25/5/09
A lovely day on the summit. I’ve seen two tiger butterflies. It’s really clear up here and can see for miles.
Joseph R

26 May 09
We came here on my 49th birthday! Missed the rain, views great. Wonderful to be out.
Have fun,
Jan & Matt

27/5/09
Very wet & windy.
Can’t see more than 10 yds.
Great! Ha ha
Gaz Fine
Ulverston

28 May 2009
Captain Flint ascended Beacon Hill
Ably assisted by Titty Walker
Benedict McConnell was here!
The four of us made it!
Yasuko, Katie-Sai, Paul & Benedict

30.05.09
We are surrounded by heaven on earth. A beautiful day & a worthwhile walk. Fabulous! Thank you for this book, we will be back!
Christine, David, Paul & Gill
Wigan

Perfect spot to celebrate a birthday (59 years)!
Andrea & Gordon 29/5/09
Wirral

30/5/09
Wish I’d listened more at school, as I would have liked to have written some lovely poetry!!! Hey ho!
Can’t think of anywhere else in the world I’d rather be right now!
Dawn & Kimmi Dog
Ulverston

Sunday 31st May 2009
Justin, Carina, Rosie (7) and Tom (2) from Wolverhampton
Your website is a great inspiration along with Wainwright’s books. I think about the fells every day!
Rosie was very excited about finding the tin, she thought Connie might be up here too! She scoffed the curly-wurly and replaced it with hula-hoops. Fine mountain food!

Dear Connie
I am 7 and love your shop and wish we could go on a walk together. I have done 34 Wainwrights, my favourites are Haystacks and Catbells.
Love Rosie Whiting x

Monday, 11 May 2009

9-11/5/09

9th May 2009
James & Emily & Robert Holden
Very winbdy!
All the best to Connie and Casper

10th May 2009
Kevin
Helen
Amy Hammond
Amy’s 10th birthday. It’s a nice day. Glad I found the treasure chest.
Love Amy 10 tomorrow
Love your shop!

10/05/09
Jo McDonagh & Mrs Carol Susan
Nice day for it.
Love the view!

14.05 10/5/9
Victoria Baxter & Matthew Archer
Absolutely gorgeous view! Finally made it after taking the long way round!
The tin is a fantastic idea – love it!
Thank-you Martin Schofield for recommending this walk!!
We will be coming back x

10-5-2009
Anne & Rod Philpott
It’s Rod’s 48th birthday today. What a lovely way to spend it walking in the Lakes.
Must dash soon, as a rain band is chasing up Coniston water!!
Back soon.

19.45 10/5/09
An evening fell run to the top without stopping. Stunning views as always. Someone left the short walks guide on the cairn – so if you are a visitor help yourself
Mike & Jess

11th May 2009 about 6pm
Jona & Kirsten
Sitting on the sheltered side of the cairn – blooming windy but beautiful sunshiney haze. Resisting the twix’s in the tin is difficult
Knew I should’ve brought the vino to go with our still warm jackets. Xxx

Greg, Nic, Molly & Sam Kawely
Lovely lunch at the tarn.
Blown the cobwebs away.
Great view. What a surprise, found by Molly! Never found a treasure chest but had heard of them!

Monday, 4 May 2009

1-4/5/09

1 May 2009
Great to be back even though it’s raining!
Michael Elcock & Dexter (FCR)
www.whitecottage.org
Check out the Beacon fell blog!
Old log books 2-7 are at LAKE BANK, WATER YEAT.
Extracts are on the blog!
Books 1 & 8 are missing.

2nd May 2009
We came up here especially to find the treasure tin, after seeing it on the Striding Edge website. Our border collie also wanted to meet Casper – no luck today! We enjoyed the climb & the views. Love,
Holly Chris Tim & Josie
THE RICHARDSONS!

Sunday 3rd May
Spectacular views after the wind had blown the clouds and kids away. Matthew wouldn’t part with his Doctor Who badge (even though he has two exactly the same). So we put in his lolly while he wasn’t looking.
Great idea, we found a similar tin near Alcock Tarn – Grasmere a few weeks ago. It is an opening fro the stream at the front edge of the tarn.
Ste, Keren, Sam & Matt Szelesi

Monday 4th May
Very windy!
But we made it and good to see the tin back. I missed it last time... Can’t see the fells for the clouds, so the map in the back is handy.
Val & Rob

Monday, 27 April 2009

25-27/4/09

25th April 2009 5.45pm
John Thorn & Jane Booth celebrating Jame’s birthday this week. This is the perfect little mini mountain – such views and so calm.

26.04.09
David, Nicky & Tom Wilson
Remembering Will & 01/01/06 – as always xx

27/04/09
Jim, Jen, John and Sarah (+bump) and Poppy
A good start to our walking holiday – great views