Mountains :HelvellynHelvellynHelvellyn - Lower ManHelvellyn - Lower Man
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A cloudy start but I set off anyway in the hope of seeing a cloud inversion. The path was clear in the valley but crampons were required from around 500m due to icy conditions on the footpath, and ice axe was carried in case of a slip/fall. The cloud was skimming the summits but was clearing as I climbed. There was a few centimetres of snow and hoar frost dominated the rocks and the trig point on the summit. Someone had lost a glove which was wedged, covered in hoar frost, into the top of a cairn! There was a strong wind chill at the summit. The views were really something to behold! :) I ascended via Helvellyn Gill, Browncove Crags, Lower Man and returned via the same route. There were large snow crevices up here later on in March 2015, although I didn't notice any at the time I did this one. The cloud covered the summits quite often as I walked, so I used map and compass to navigate back to Browncove Crags. Here, I noticed the mist was below me and the sun low in the sky behind, so I approached the Northern edge and was lucky enough to see a Brocken Spectre. Turning round I could see a cloud inversion over Windermere and the Southern Lakes. It was a magical day! On the way down I saw a little vole dashing into a space beneath some boulders.
A cloudy start but I set off anyway in the hope of seeing a cloud inversion. The path was clear in the valley but crampons were required from around 500m due to icy conditions on the footpath, and ice axe was carried in case of a slip/fall. The cloud was skimming the summits but was clearing as I climbed. There was a few centimetres of snow and hoar frost dominated the rocks and the trig point on the summit. Someone had lost a glove which was wedged, covered in hoar frost, into the top of a cairn! There was a strong wind chill at the summit. The views were really something to behold! :) I ascended via Helvellyn Gill, Browncove Crags, Lower Man and returned via the same route. There were large snow crevices up here later on in March 2015, although I didn't notice any at the time I did this one. The cloud covered the summits quite often as I walked, so I used map and compass to navigate back to Browncove Crags. Here, I noticed the mist was below me and the sun low in the sky behind, so I approached the Northern edge and was lucky enough to see a Brocken Spectre. Turning round I could see a cloud inversion over Windermere and the Southern Lakes. It was a magical day! On the way down I saw a little vole dashing into a space beneath some boulders.
