We were in a cloud all night. At 7am I poked my head out the tent and saw nothing, just grey wet fuzz. Had puzzled over map.
Plan A was to do...Corridor Route to Scafell Pike then over Great End, Ill Crag, Bowfell etc and down The Band to Langdale, call in at the ODG for chips and Wild Camp at Stickle Tarn. Then over to Grasmere the following day.
Plan B - To go past Allen Crags and over Bowfell and down The Band and camp in Langdale at National Trust Campsite.
Plan C dawned on me as I lay in my pit listening to the rain lash at the tent. Given we were on holiday and would be putting on wet clothes (the wind driven rain had powered through our summer waterproofs) we could return to Rossthwaite YHA...have a real bed, a drying room, a bar....
We chose plan C. Even after dropping the tent the weather was wild. We decended the path all the time getting buffetted by the wind. We passed lots of people in shorts wearing cheapo plastic ponchos...
1.9 km/h
2.9 km/h moving average
3 hrs.
7.4 km
54.6 km total.
Area :
Southern Fells (Scafell Pike)
The Southern Fells Include Scafell Pike, the highest peak in England, occupy a broad area to the south of Great Langdale, Borrowdale and Wasdale. High and rocky towards the centre of the Lake District, the Southern Fells progressively take on a moorland character toward the south west. In the south east are the well known Furness Fells, their heavily quarried flanks rising above Coniston Water.
