The path to Patterdale.

    Unless you've been there or have a map in front of you, I don't expect you to know where Patterdale is. I certainly didn't. The directions were like this:  Climb that mountain. You'll see a tarn ( a lake) at the top. Keep going east.   Climb another mountain.  Then walk down the mountain and that's Patterdale. Uh-huh. A sign post, here and there, would be nice.

             There are NO signs.  A lot of the C2C trail is on National Park land and its thought by some that sign posts would mar the wilderness. They would detract from the ethos of wilderness. Hmmm     

              One innkeeper explained that there are a lot of footpaths in England. (Point conceded; there are indeed.)  And,  he said, paths are  just paths. You could go any number of places from a given path, so how can you put up a sign saying where the path goes? 

        And he said, you should know where you're going. Otherwise, why set out in the first place?  

         This all seemed like an interesting chain of thought, but it wasn't going to make it any easier to get to Patterdale.