Route: Mirehouse, The Old Sawmill Tea Room - Dodd - Long Doors - White Stones - Carl Side - Carlside Tarn - Skiddaw - Broad End - Cockup - Melbecks - Peter House Farm
Distance: 6.50 miles
Ascent: 3,150ft
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
It is all a question of timing... A morning walk in the worst weather of the week, windy with showers. On the summit we were in cloud, it was blowing a gale and hailing - very painful. This afternoon it is still windy but dry and sunny with the Skiddaw summit cloud free!
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The Old Sawmill Tearoom at Dodd Wood
The head of Bassenthwaite Lake with Whinlatter Forest and Barf on the far side
Path in Dodd Wood
Dodd's summit
Looking across Bassenthwaite Lake to Whinlatter Forest and Barf from Dodd's summit
Bassenthwaite Lake from Dodd's summit
The path to White Stones from Long Doors with Skiddaw Little Man behind the Carl Side ridge
Long Doors
The view south to Derwent Water from Long Doors
Looking back to Dodd from the path to White Stones
Derwent Water from the White Stones path from Long Doors
White Stones
Latrigg and Keswick from White Stones
Into the cloud as we head for Carl Side's summit
Looking back down the White Stones path as the cloud temporarily lifts
Skiddaw from Carl Side's summit as it chucks it down with rain
Foul conditions on Skiddaw's summit ridge
Skiddaw summit
Cockup from the descent from Broad End
Cockup with Brockle Crag on the side of Great Cockup beyond
Cockup with Binsey in the distance on the left
Bakestall from Cockup's summit
The foot of Bassenthwaite Lake from our descent off Cockup
The start of the public footpath by Cockup Gill which leads out to the road
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