Roughing it with Eagles & walking in the footsteps of Romans

One walk I had been planning to do for a while is an approach of High Street over Rough Crag, returning to Haweswater fom High Raise. I've never visited the two Birkett tops of Low Raise  & Castle Crag so a chance to add two to my tally made this an obvious route choice. The forecast for today was surprising good considering the next days forecast is about as bad as you could ever wish for, local news warned of cancelled sporting events & country shows. So MWIS predicting a favourable 80% chance of cloud free summits was the icing on the cake.

 I often preach of an early start so it was somewhat of a surprise to arrive at the car park at the top of Haweswater to find a gazebo with what appeared to be a buffet of fruit & various snacks with a choice of refreshments. A film camera sat ready on a tripod, a photographer and other 'official' looking people in attendance standing dutifully by the tent. Me & my faithful walking companion don't usually get this sort of reception, how did they know where we were walking today? More importantly that my dog is partial to the odd sausage roll (or three)?

Unfortunately the welcoming committee wasn't for us but had something to do with a 100k Mountain Marathon starting from Brockhole.

Early morning in Haweswater, the sun hadn't come over Selside Pike yet...