Distance: 10 miles
Ascent: 600m
Weather: cloudy start, the rain forecast for lunchtime fell as snow, bright and sunny later on.
Critters: heard a cuckoo, various sheep,including some as yet unidentified black and tan ones, cows (having a kip), a buzzard.
The path from Patterdale along to Hartsop was very busy with a huge noisy horde, who stopped to have a conference (while blocking the gate and generally not being aware of other path users) before they (thankfully) went the other way.
A quick change of plan saw us heading up Deepdale, where eagle-eyed Rob saw a buzzard a very long way away and I managed to take a very blurry photograph of it. We stopped for elevenses while peering at the head of the valley trying to spot potential ways up.
There was a bit of a stream-crossing-wobble over one of Deepdale Beck's tributary, but I made it. We traversed under Mart Crag and up the steep grassy slope to Link Cove and Brink Brow, to reach Hartsop Above How. It started snowing just as we were about half way up and there were flurries on an off for the next couple of hours until we were almost down and the sun came out and it warmed up considerably. Here we met some happy people who asked us if there was a car park down in the valley at the end of the path we were on.
The valley was reached in pretty pasture lands, and we came back long the same track to Patterdale as we'd taken this morning and where again there were noisy people, but also pretty flowers and cute lambs.
Ascent: 600m
Weather: cloudy start, the rain forecast for lunchtime fell as snow, bright and sunny later on.
Critters: heard a cuckoo, various sheep,including some as yet unidentified black and tan ones, cows (having a kip), a buzzard.
The path from Patterdale along to Hartsop was very busy with a huge noisy horde, who stopped to have a conference (while blocking the gate and generally not being aware of other path users) before they (thankfully) went the other way.
A quick change of plan saw us heading up Deepdale, where eagle-eyed Rob saw a buzzard a very long way away and I managed to take a very blurry photograph of it. We stopped for elevenses while peering at the head of the valley trying to spot potential ways up.
There was a bit of a stream-crossing-wobble over one of Deepdale Beck's tributary, but I made it. We traversed under Mart Crag and up the steep grassy slope to Link Cove and Brink Brow, to reach Hartsop Above How. It started snowing just as we were about half way up and there were flurries on an off for the next couple of hours until we were almost down and the sun came out and it warmed up considerably. Here we met some happy people who asked us if there was a car park down in the valley at the end of the path we were on.
The valley was reached in pretty pasture lands, and we came back long the same track to Patterdale as we'd taken this morning and where again there were noisy people, but also pretty flowers and cute lambs.
Photo gallery from today here.
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