Distance: 10 miles
Ascent: 250m - today we climbed about 90 floors, 10% of which were in the hotel.
Weather: rain, rain, rain
Seen: a jay, a deer, water
Plans: abandoned
Today we were going to climb Pillar from Ennerdale. We headed off early with a hearty breakfast inside and the promise of a fine day. We parked up in the car park down in Ennerdale valley and set off at about 10am. At about 10:05 am it started raining, and didn't stop for the next three hours. We are used to rain, but this was pretty serious rain.
The forest tracks were overflowing and High Beck, which, according to the fell guide book, we should "gingerly ford" was a raging torrent of water down the hillside.
We stopped under the non-existent shelter of some pine trees and took stock, deciding to abort our high level walk in favour of a walk around the valley. Ennerdale is beautiful, even in the wet.
About 3/4 of the way around, it stopped raining but the tops were always in cloud. We saw a deer and then, when the sun had come out a bit, we saw a lot of people. Most of them were dry.
We are going to attempt Pillar again next weekend, this time from from Honister, and Rob has declared we are going to the top, whatever the weather.
Ascent: 250m - today we climbed about 90 floors, 10% of which were in the hotel.
Weather: rain, rain, rain
Seen: a jay, a deer, water
Plans: abandoned
Today we were going to climb Pillar from Ennerdale. We headed off early with a hearty breakfast inside and the promise of a fine day. We parked up in the car park down in Ennerdale valley and set off at about 10am. At about 10:05 am it started raining, and didn't stop for the next three hours. We are used to rain, but this was pretty serious rain.
The forest tracks were overflowing and High Beck, which, according to the fell guide book, we should "gingerly ford" was a raging torrent of water down the hillside.
We stopped under the non-existent shelter of some pine trees and took stock, deciding to abort our high level walk in favour of a walk around the valley. Ennerdale is beautiful, even in the wet.
About 3/4 of the way around, it stopped raining but the tops were always in cloud. We saw a deer and then, when the sun had come out a bit, we saw a lot of people. Most of them were dry.
We are going to attempt Pillar again next weekend, this time from from Honister, and Rob has declared we are going to the top, whatever the weather.
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