Monday, 22 November 2010

Attempt on Newlands...

we ummed and aahed a lot on Friday night - at one point even thinking of going away for the weekend. However we elected in the end to get up early Saturday and try Newlands Horseshoe on the grounds the weather stated it would be better to the west....

....a good early (ish!!!) start then occurred and we had a good drive to Keswick; followed by a lovely sandwich for breakfast and buying some good trousers for Claire. We then got to the parking spot to find far too many cars for my liking in residence...however it was a glorious day as I hope the pictures show http://picasaweb.google.com/simon.bigair/MaidenMoorAndHighSpy# and we set off up. Unfortunately the weather deteriorated and by the time we reached High Spy we were deep in cloud. There were also lots of people around; including what looked like a university group one member of whom was on about going onto Great Gable that day......so the decision was made to drop to Dalehead Tarn and follow the road back down the valley and the car. This was not the greatest decision on earth as the path was quite slippy in places. However, the cloud was still low and the rain started when we hit the car so we would not have seen much anyhow...and there was still time for a gear fix and a cake!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/simon.bigair/MaidenMoorAndHighSpy#


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