07 Skiddaw

Route: Moot Hall, Keswick - Latrigg car park (end of Gale Road) - Jenkin Hill - Skiddaw - Jenkin Hill - Latrigg car park - Moot Hall

Distance: 10.00 miles

Ascent: 2,900ft

Time: 3 hours 45 minutes

With: On Own

Notes:

Cloud base approx 1,600ft, no rain but damp in the cloud. Warm and humid at low level but cold in the very strong wind on the summit.

The tourist path up Skiddaw from Keswick, out and back the same way. No views from the summit again.

Area

The Old Keswickian fish and chip shop in the centre of Keswick

'Skiddaw 4 miles' from the end of Spoony Green Lane

Latrigg from the bridge across the A66

Keswick, Derwent Water and Catbells

The Hawell Monument

The cloud is down on the Helvellyn ridge as I head up Jenkin Hill

Straight on then! The Jenkin Hill Gate on the main superhighway up Skiddaw

Skiddaw summit

The view finder at Skiddaw's summit, but no view today

Back on the path down Jenkin Hill

Dropping below the cloud and Keswick and Derwent Water come into view