Hills: Dollywaggon Pike, Nethermost Pike, Helvellyn (a repeat)
Classification: Wainwrights (129 and 130)
When: Thursday 5 September
Who: Me and the mountaineering minion
Distance: About 7 miles, but felt like twice that.
Time: 5 hours approximately. Not much in the way of breaks – too cold!
Weather: Quite mixed. Cloud blowing in and out for most of it – pea soup and raining on Helvellyn. Also cold at height.
Post walk drink: Lake District G&T
Post walk watering hole: The Inn at Grasmere
Uses of the arse crampon: 2
Mishaps: Mild insomnia. Not packing warm enough gear. Also choice of descent route…
This blog has been pretty quiet for a couple of months for various reasons. Firstly a lot of work which has meant that this post itself is a bit late in arriving but more significantly nothing really resembling walking during that time. We always have two weeks off in August but these days rather than spending them looking at the rain lash down outside a cottage in Scotland, we go to Egypt for two weeks of sun, sea and snorkelling. Egypt is a fascinating country but given the heat it’s really not somewhere you go for walking so our exercise while we were there consisted of snorkelling the reef at the hotel (which is about 1k long so definitely counts as exercise!) and raising various alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to our mouths (which on balance doesn’t count given you are only really working out the muscles in one arm). Continue reading
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