Date | Thursday, 1st August 2024 |
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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. |
Roses on the Wainwrights
Thursday 1 August 2024
Scafell Pike
Sunday 28 July 2024
Helvellyn
Date | Sunday, 28th July 2024 |
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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. |
Thursday 10 August 2023
Blencathra
Date | Thursday, 10th August 2023 |
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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. |
Wednesday 9 August 2023
Skiddaw
Date | Wednesday, 9th August 2023 |
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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. |
Monday 13 February 2023
Wetherlam
Date | Saturday, 31st July 2021 |
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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. |
Friday 21 October 2022
Ill Bell
Date | Friday, 21st October 2022 |
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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. |
Thursday 18 August 2022
High Spy
Date | Thursday, 18th August 2022 |
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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. |
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