Two friends, Chris and Lynne, were also due to make the trek up to the Lakes, staying in Langdale at Baysbrown Farm campsite, so we decided to drive over to Langdale and see if we could meet up with them. We parked at the National Trust car park at the New Dungeon Ghyll in glorious sunny weather, contrasting completely with the persistent heavy rain I had experienced a week earlier when I was there for the Old County Tops fell race (which I should also write up...). We sauntered down the valley to Baysbrown Farm, stopping on the way to sit in the sunshine, look over towards Stickle Ghyll and up to Pavey Ark and to have a look at the scrambling guide for inspiration.
The view towards Pavey Ark:
A scramble up Stickle Ghyll followed by Pavey Ark seemed like a nice route, so once we met up with Chris and Lynne we head back to the New Dungeon Ghyll to get going. As you will see from the photos, the weather was glorious - a superb day out was had by all.
Some parts of Stickle Ghyll were more moist than others:
Most of the rock was good quality and the scrambling good fun. Shayda and I both used to climb - indeed, our first date was grit climbing in the Peak District - but a foot injury has meant that she can't put climbing shoes on these days. That made it especially enjoyable to get out scrambling, remembering how much fun it is to move over rock again. Once at the summit we added Harrison's Stickle to Shayda's Wainwrights tick-list... which we should actually make into a list before we start to forget which ones she has done.
Note that the rescue helicopter pictured below appeared to be on a training flight.
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