{"id":767,"date":"2011-03-07T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2011-03-07T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T19:15:54","slug":"the-cumberland-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/the-cumberland-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cumberland Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Jimski, Sean and I completed a route we named as the Cumberland Ring. Our aim was to circumnavigate the Lake District, via the rivers Eden and Lune and the coast between Lancaster and Carlisle, a distance of 340km.<\/p>\n

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\"\"For the inland sections we paddled Pyranha Fusions, and really liked them. The paddling was varied and a lot of fun. This is Stangerthwaite weir, which has a reputation for being nasty, but not at these water levels.<\/div>\n
\"\"Man-made caves in the sandstone of the Eden valley.<\/div>\n

\"\"The river is getting bigger and broader.
\n\"\"Heading out to salt water in Lancaster, the Lune estuary.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Crossing Morecambe Bay, not a lot to aim for.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a> West Cumbria, Black Combe in the background.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a> Trolleys were essential on the long walk between campsite and sea.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a> The final days paddling, into a mist, just a compass course to follow.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a> A total of 340 km paddled in 7 days. Fantastic weather conditions, calm sea and no rain. Not bad for March!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Jimski, Sean and I completed a route we named as the Cumberland Ring. Our aim was to circumnavigate the Lake District, via the rivers Eden and Lune and the coast between Lancaster and Carlisle, a distance of 340km. For the inland sections we paddled Pyranha Fusions, and really liked them. The paddling was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}