Day 4 - Easy Peasy

Luckily Day Four of the Coast to Coast is what they call a rest day ; that doesn't mean you'll actually get any rest - it just means you don't walk as far as normal. If truth be told it's quite easy - a pedestrian 8 miles over the top of Gisedale Tarn which is a slightly less hideous climb than everthing else (with a comedy hill in the middle called Great Tongue for added amusement). Weather was all right too (only a few showers) so there was much putting on and then taking off of the waterproofs - although nothing is truely waterproof in the Lake district, more of a damp resistant layer for the ten or so minutes at the start of every day.

Walking through the forest at the end of the day is really rather pleasant - Sherpa Kerr advises that it was a carnivourous forrest as opposed to a devious one but being a city boy I'm hard pushed to tell the difference.

The day ends in the rather splendid White Lion Inn in Patterdale (Well, I say ends it was only 2.30) where I though it my duty to check that the Strongbow wasn't poisionous, for the benefit of my fellow travellers you understand�