i looked at MWIS for the wx on thursday and it seemed ok so decided to go out on the hills.i got up at 06:30 as normal looked down at the Grisedale Pike to Grasmoor ridge and it was clear; so with no fixed plan i left home at 08:15 and parked at Lanthwaite Green 08:30 and set of up Whin Ben to go up Whiteside.i like the route up Whin Ben because there are about 4 rocky sections to scramble over or you can avoid them if you want.i arrived on the summit and started to take some photos when Phil M0AYB called me at 09:50 for a quick contact because he had a zoom call at 10:00.i had posted on the WOTA site i would be on the summit at 10:15 + - my usual 15 minutes and was i little early after that i made 3 more contacts
2E0MIX/P derek
G4VFL Andrew
GM1VLA Tony in Annan
Crummock Water with the twin humps of Mellbreak in the centre Starling Dodd to the left and over to the right Hen Comb/Gavel Fell/ and Blake Fell
the ridge walk over to Hopegill Head is a delight and les serious than some other ridge walks
over to Cockermouth and the Solway firth
looking back to Whiteside
Coledale Hause with Scar Crags/Sail fell/and Eel Crag to the right
Hopegill Head and Grisedale Pike
Skiddaw in the sun
from Hopegill Head i made 3 contacts
G4WHA/M GEOFF at work in Carlisle
2E0MIX DEREK
G4VFL ANDREW
the path over sand hill and as yet undecided which one to do next.
the fell to the left is Sail Fell then Eel Crag and Wandope
the dodds over Causey Pike
the trig marker on Eel Crag
Skiddaw and Keswick
the first sign of the wx change that was to come but first to activate Eel Crag i made 5 contacts
G4YTD TIM
2E0MIX DEREK
G0TDM JOHN
G4VFL ANDREW
G4WHA/M GEOFF
looking over to Grasmoor and the next fell. the bottom section is quite steep but a good path and the summit is about another half mile on from what you can see but much easier
the summit shelter on Grasmoor the wind speed was 20 miles an hour and -3 wind chill and the wx was now starting to close in so it was a quick activation and get of there
G4YTD TIM
G4WHA/M GEOFF
M0AYB PHIL
G4VFL ANDREW
2E0MIX DEREK
GM3VMB PETER
M7BUY KEVIN
GM1VLA TONY
it was now closing in fast and raining so i decided to descend via Lad Hows and was that a mistake the path is very steep and loose large rocks on top of small ones and with my glasses cover with rain i missed my footing and went down hard. after a quick look around to see if any body saw a silly old fool fall over i got up and the realised it had twisted my knee so after the it was along and painful walk down
the awful path down Lad Hows
once i was down which seemed to take for ever i still had about 1 mile to walk up the road to the car at Lanthwaite Green and got to the car at 15:15 after leaving the summit at 13:32 last contact
