Deepdale and Saint Sunday Crag
Sat 19 Dec 2009
Route: Deepdale Bridge - Deepdale - Sleet Cove - Deepdale Hause - Saint Sunday Crag - Thornhow End - Glenamara Park - Patterdale - Rooking - Crookabeck - Beckstones - Deepdale Bridge
Distance: 8.50 miles
Ascent: 2,400ft
Time: 5 hours 20 minutes
With: Anne and David Hall
Notes:
Cold, -6.5C when we started at 9am, blue skies to start but cloud building and a snow shower at the end of the walk
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Snow on Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes from Deepdale
Upper Deepdale with Greenhow End directly ahead
Greenhow End
Heading for the low point on the skyline, Deepdale Hause
Frozen waterfall, Deepdale
Heading into Sleet Cove
Sheepfold in Sleet Cove
Dollywaggon Pike, Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn from Deepdale Hause
Saint Sunday Crag from Deepdale Hause
Deepdale
Heading up St Sunday Crag
Grisedale Tarn
St Sunday Crag, the summit is still some way off
Brrrrr
Heading for St Sunday Crag's summit
The cloud has reached Fairfield
The North Pennines from St Sunday Crag's summit
Ullswater from St Sunday Crag
Looking back to St Sunday Crag as we take the path on Birks flank
The path on the side of Birks
Ullswater
Looking over Grisedale to High Spying How from Thornhow End
Place Fell
Deepdale from between Crookabeck and Beckstones as the bad weather arrives
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