With the
High Peak Marathon looming next Friday night, me and
Hester scaled back from one or two of my original hare brained plans for Saturday and chose to scoot over to the Lakes and trot up
Wetherlam from Coniston. I hadn't actually been up there before so it was as much an exploration outing as a run and we took it nice and easy and just had a chilled out time. "Chilled out" being the operative words as it was jolly fricking icy, still pretty snowy up high and, once we crested the top ridge, the wind was very cuttingly in halfly indeedy. A lovely 7 and a bit miles though with total climb getting on for 2,600 feet followed by a delicious cumberland sausage butty for me, something less carnivorous for Hester, and tea and cake in the
Bluebird Cafe.
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| It wasn't shorts weather for sure! |
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| Hester at about halfway up |
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| Looking towards Coniston Old Man |
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| The Old Man |
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| On the top ridge with Crinkle Crags behind me and Scafell and Scafell Pike just about visible beyond that |
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| Not a bad view |
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| Me deciding it was a bit jolly parky up top and choosing not to hang about! |
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| Ice and rocks - Levens Water |
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| Looking towards Swirl How from Levens Water |
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| Hester exploring an ice cave |
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| There be treasure, yargh! |
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| Ze route up ze mountain |
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