Honister Pass / Slate Mine – Frank Goodman

A last minute run last sunday, we met at Forton, just Frank, Judy, Roger and Cheryl, we set off for the lakes. It was cloudy but warm. Owing to the missed Lancaster Bomber a few weeks ago a Spitfire made up for it at Bowness, it was a full size replica and very nice too. We had a brew then set off again going north through some breathtaking scenery but really bad road surfaces. A guy who I work with had told me about a place called Honister pass, he said it would be nice on the bike, and it was, again the scenery was breathtaking and very good ‘biking’ roads. It brings you to Honister slate mine where you can go up the mountain on a bus and go into the mine, we thought it would be a good ride out one day for the future, there is a shop and cafe there too, the shop sells everything you can think of in lakeland slate, Roger can vouch for that, eh Roger? He was that impressed he had a second ride there just to exchange his purchase for the right number.We picked up some leaflets for members to look at for a future run. From there we rode through Borrowdale, Buttermere and over to Cockermouth and into Keswick where we sampled the ice creams and we have to add that they were just as good as last time. All in all it was a very pleasant day out AND we missed all the rain.

Frank