**** Up-dated info posted at 19.46hrs Sat 4th October ****
Start / Finish: car-parking at the Event field is available at £5/car and you will be directed to your parking. The weather conditions & forecast have meant we have been given late permission to park on the playing fuields as usual.
Hartsop (Legs 1-2 Changeover): is free in the field you will be directed from the main road. Parking is limited and we ask that only 2 cars per Club are taken here. It is less than 5 mins walk to the changeover at the sheep pens. We have had problems with Camper-vans parking at Hartsop: please park as directed by the marshals or better still don’t take larger vehicles up there.
Portaloos are available at the Sheep-pens at Hartsop changeover.
Parking at Kirkstone (legs 2-3 Changeover) is severely restricted and particularly sensitive. Car parking will be managed at Kirkstone with most space being reserved for the Kirkstone Inns’ patrons. Parking permits for Kirkstone – to be displayed on car dashboard – will be issued at Registration. Cars without a permit will not be allowed to park at Kirkstone. If the car park is full you will be asked to drop leg 3 runners off and return to Patterdale. (There is some parking at Red Pit car park, 800m down the road towards Brotherswater). There is NO roadside parking at Kirkstone, if teams park on the road without marshal consent they will be disqualified.
Portaloos are available at the Kirkstone car park (NOT the Kirkstone Inn).
Parking at Sykeside (Legs 3-4 Changeover) will also be managed. Parking permits for Sykeside will also be issued at Registration. Access to the parking at Sykeside is by the top entrance (Kirkstone side) to the site. Please park as directed. If the parking is full you will be asked to drop leg 4 runners off and return to Patterdale. Do not park on the car park by the Brotherswater Inn – it is for the use of the pub’s lunchtime patrons and we have not paid for its use. There is absolutely no road side parking by the Brotherwater Inn. It is only about 15 mins jog from Hartsop to Sykeside takeover along the west shore of Brotherswater.
Portaloos are available at the Hartsop Hall changeover (not the campsite or the land around Hartsop Hall)
Please drive safely between takeovers. If running to a takeover or between takeovers, please keep to public footpaths in the valley bottom and do not take short-cuts across open land, it might be privately owned. And close all gates please!