Kentmere

Spotted that the weather was finally going to break properly this week, so scrambled my last day off on Tuesday. The forecast had it being cloudy to start but soon clearing. Well is was thick mist from valley level until about 12:30, after which a rapid clearing did happen and the sun came out! I headed over to Staveley, and parked up by Wilfs (for that all important post-trot feed!) and headed out on an extended Kentmere Round:

Shipman Knotts
Kentmere Pike
Harter Fell
Mardale Ill Bell
High Street
Thornthwaite Crag
Stoney Cove Pike
Thornthwaite Crag (again!)
Froswick
Ill Bell
Yoke
Sallows
Sour Howes

and back to Staveley! 24.5 miles and about 6000 feet. All two days after the Edale Skyline! The first half to Thornthwaite Crag (1st time) was in thick mist from the car park. after which the sun came out and it was lovely and warm. Felt strong and happy all the way. Food and drink all done well. Only downer was the soft snow on the higher fells, deep and soft! In fact it was quite surreal on Kentmere Pike in about 30 meters visibility, snow and ice on the ground and a cold westerly blowing to hear meadow pipits singing, a sound I always associate with warm summer days in the fields around home when I was a kid!