A weekend in the Lakes - day 1

Shayda and I had booked off the Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday surrounding the late May Bank Holiday weekend, with the intention to head up to the Lake District for a relaxing weekend... and for some training to get Shayda fitter for the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon.  I had been planning on pacing the last two legs of Frank's Bob Graham Round on Saturday night but sadly he had a mysterious shoulder injury and had therefore postponed his attempt, so we had the whole weekend to ourselves.

24 July 2013

On Friday, we got up early to escape London before the rush hour kicked in, and we reached Keswick in time for lunch.  We then decided to scoot up Latrigg, the then-snowy scene of our engagement a couple of years ago, and then Skiddaw.  It was pretty warm low down but the wind really picked up once we summited Skiddaw Little Man, and was bitterly cold by the time we reached the top of Skiddaw.

Shayda on the way up Skiddaw:

Not only was the top of Skiddaw chuffing cold but it was just touching the clouds, which provided some dramatic views towards Carl Side once we had descended a little:

Concerns that my nose would freeze and fall off were, it turns out, unsubstantiated, and we warmed up on the way down, aided by Shayda's decision to jog part of the way.  We made it back down in good time, having added three new peaks to Shayda's Wainwrights tally and ready to head back into Keswick for some more pub grub.