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Everyone laughs at these mistakes, including me. Mine happened while holidaying in the Lake District, we were planning to hike to Scafell Pike (highest point in
by desas 11y ago
Everyone laughs at these mistakes, including me. Mine happened while holidaying in the Lake District, we were planning to hike to Scafell Pike (highest point in England), from Seathwaite. So we rolled out of our tent at 5am, got in the car, punched Seathwaite into the sat nav, and drove. We passed ominous warning signs. We thought that sounded reasonable for the highest point in England so we ploughed on.
We did get out the car at Seathwaite an hour or more later, feeling slightly puzzled as we had recollections it was about 30 minutes away from the campground. We put it down to google underestimating the time taken to go on the slightly scary steep, single track roads.
After stretching our legs, we consulted our actual map + walking instructions and couldn't get anything to match up. We flagged down a local and they pointed out that there's another Seathwaite about ten miles away as the crow flies and that was probably the one we wanted. The catch was that three mountains lay between us. I've rarely felt so embarrassed. The drive over the Wrynose and Hard Knott pass was very picturesque though.