Little Langdale to Tilberthwaite. Up Tilberthwaite Gill. Got crampons and Gtx on at Birk Fell Man. Great fun making fresh tracks and choosing from a wealth of route possibilities on the steeper more mixed ground left of the main Wetherlam Edge trail. Good to get front point on steeper ground and practice a few axe arrests.
Windy on top. Cloud coming and going. Sometimes flurries of snow. Sometimes hail.
Crossed to Black Sails and then down to Swirl Hawse.
Clag was down on Swirl How. Started to feel some fatigue by this point (a week ago I was recovering from dengue fever and struggled to walk 1 mile)
Crampons off and traded axe for pole.
Wind scoured terrain.
Came across Halifax Bomber Crew Memorial at Great Carrs (from 1944)
Gentle descent via Hell Gill Pike and Wet Side Edge. Good views of the day`s route and of Wrynose and Blisco.
Crossed Greenburn Beck and plodded home along the old miners` track.
Area :
Southern Fells (Scafell Pike)
From the Esk Valley all the way across to Kendal and the M6. Includes Coniston area as far north as Little Langdale, Wrynose and Hardknott Pass.
