STAND STRAIGHT!

the drill-sergeant-of-life keeps yelling in my ear:
STAND STRAIGHT, FACE UP! My ears are ringing; my head is
spinning. Do I stand square on the square? Or do I rest
my head, desert my place, and hide in comfort of present
needs? What comfort, or ease-at-heart, do principles give me?
They ask me to stand straight in bleak and lonely places;
to keep a lost post. I would be pragmatic, if only this
bloody drill-sergeant stopped yelling: STAND STRAIGHT!, FACE 
UP!


1)HELVELLYN From Glenridding, up Birkhouse Moor,
over the exposed Striding Edge, Helvellyn, Catstycam,
down at Red Tarn Beck, over to Patterdale via Grassthwaite
How. 
(13km, 950m ascent)
2)FAIRFIELD Patterdale, St Sunday Crag (how appropriate),
Fairfield, Hart Crag, and back into Patterdale via Crookabeck.
(15km, 1100m ascent)
3)ULLSWATER From Pooley Bridge along the southside of Ullswater
and through the fields to Patterdale.
(14km, 50m ascent)
4)PLACE FELL From Pooley Bridge, first along the lake, and later
up some hills; High Dodd and Place Fell, overlooking the lake.
(15km, 450m ascent)
5)HIGH STREET From Patterdale the High Street horseshoe, with
Angle Tarn and The Knott.
(17km, 800m ascent)

Yours,

Norbert