Scafell Pike

Date	Thursday, 1st August 2024
Summits	Scafell Pike, Scafell & Lingmell
Start	Wasdale Head (NY182075)
Route	Ascent to Scafell Pike via Lingmell, avoiding the tourist route. Dropping to Mickledore before ascending Scafell via Foxes Tarn.
Company	Rachel, Tim, Jo, Andrew
Weather	High cloud during most of the ascent, opening out to sunny intervals. Occasional patches of low swirling cloud.
Notes	Advised by cottage owners to be at the National Trust car park by 7am. Actually, this was unnecessary - the car park doesn't typically fill on weekdays. However, it meant we climbed in the cool of the day and got great views from the top before the cloud closed in later. Three Tornados flew extremely close overhead as we approached the summit of Scafell.

Helvellyn

Date	Sunday, 28th July 2024
Summits	Helvellyn, Nethermost Pike & Dollywagon Pike
Start	Dunmail Raise (NY326116)
Route	Ascent via Raise Beck and Dollywagon Pike. Descent via Nethermost Pike and Grizedale Tarn to Grasmere.
Company	Tim, Jo, Andrew, Robin, Hilary, Colin
Weather	Hot and sunny with some scattered clouds.
Notes	On approach to the summit, a rescue helicopter landed to deal with an incident on Striding Edge.

Blencathra

Date	Thursday, 10th August 2023
Summits	Blencathra
Start	Keswick Youth Hostel
Route	Ascent via Sharp Edge.
Company	Tim, Rachel, Jo, Andrew, Robin
Weather	Breezy
Notes	Rachel & Tim found Sharp Edge a lot of fun whereas Jo and especially Andrew found it terrifying.

Skiddaw

Date	Wednesday, 9th August 2023
Summits	Skiddaw, Skiddaw Little Man, Longside, Ullock Pike, Carlside, Dodd
Start	Keswick Youth Hostel
Route	Less well trod route to Skiddaw, then the other summits in the order listed above.
Company	Tim, Rachel, Jo, Andrew
Weather	There was a lot of cloud and we got a bit soggy on top.
Notes	At our lunch stop we have a good view of a big sailing race on Bassenthwaite Lake. We wished we hadn't added Dodd as an extra summit - it was surrounded by a vast cloud of flying ants and the path back was non-existent owing to forestry work that had recently taken place.

Wetherlam

Date	Saturday, 31st July 2021
Summits	Wetherlam
Start	Tilberthwaite Ghyll
Company	Tim, Rachel, Jo, Andrew, Robin
Weather	Very misty the entire time - sadly no views.
Notes	We spent 20 minutes negotiating with the RingGo parking app before setting off and discovering a National Trust car park just round the corner.

Ill Bell

Date	Friday, 21st October 2022
Summits	Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Troutbeck Tongue
Route	In the order listed
Company	Tim, Rachel, Jo, Robin
Weather	Sunshine and heavy showers, misty at times.
Notes	Tim's first walk in his new boots which he declard to be alright. To the children's great dismay, they forgot the lunchtime tomatoes.

High Spy

Date	Thursday, 18th August 2022
Summits	High Spy, Maiden Moor & Catbells
Start	Borrowdale Youth Hostel
Company	Rachel, Tim, Jo
Weather	Misty and drizzly but thankfully with the wind on our backs when exposed.
Notes	We saw a few abandoned mines on the way up High Spy and explored one of them. Saw almost nobody else until we found a party of 30 on Catbells.