Me and Gav decided to 'blitz' the 3 Peaks (of Yorkshire) on Saturday and, together with Harry met up at Horton at 9:30 in the morning raring to go... with the rain absolutely lashing down and the promise of strong winds waiting for us on the tops! That didn't phase us at all - we had good gear and just 'love' battling against the elements. And battle against the elements we did; strong wind and rain on Pen y Ghent, a fair deluge of rain for the 9 miles between the top of Pen y Ghent and Whernside, the rain turning to snow on Whernside, with lots of deep, wet and toe freezingly cold snow to wade through getting up there, followed by a blizzard and massive winds fighting our way up the north face of Ingleborough.
22 miles after starting we rocked back into Horton completely plastered in mud but feeling cocky about facing all that weather and beating it good and proper. Then it was a pint of tea and a slab of fruit cake in the Pen y Ghent Cafe, job done!
Fricking brilliant!
My rain splattered pictures of the outing:
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| Haz approaching the top of peak one, Pen y Ghent |
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| Hull Pot in full flow |
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| Heading into the murk, going up Whernside |
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| Gav on all fours going up a snow bank, not far from the top |
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| No room in the wind shelter at the top of Whernside, peak two |
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| Looking towards Ingleborough through flakes of snow |
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| Ingleborough ahoy! |
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| It was getting seriously windy now |
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| Gav and Haz battling up the north face of Ingleborough, peak three |
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| Nearing the finish now, with Pen y Ghent in view (I'd say 'again' but we couldn't see it first time) |
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| Ze route |
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