These pictures are some of the many that are on my picasa site: http://picasaweb.google.com/simon.bigair/HarterFell
Today was the last day before Claire and I head to Achnasheen and then Kinlochewe in NW Scotland; with a bit of an uncertain forecast as to what we were going to get. We also wanted to drop some of Claire's stuff off at the flat - a very gentle start to the moving in process. So, we dropped down to Haweswater for a nice day out on Harter Fell and the promise of a glorious day.
The drive down was a little interesting - but not as interesting as the drive out promised to be!! We picked up a walker who had abandoned his car some way shy of the Haweswater Hotel (which actually provided us with a nice soup and bread!) and slid gently down to Mardale Head. Apart from a couple of cars the car-park was deserted and we had the Gatesgarth Pass to ourselves as our hitcher departed up the Nan Bield. The pass held a lot more snow than Blencathra, despite the latter being considerably higher, and on the ascent to Harter Fell itself someone had quite clearly being skiing there...The views from the top were glorious with views to Ingleborough and Pendle Hill which is near Burnley in Lancashire. The descent, by the same way, was even more glorious with prolonged views over the Pennines and the Howgills to help us and then a glorious afternoon sun over the High Street range. We saw 3 people all day before the hotel - another very good point.
Off to Achnasheen tomorrow and then an early start on Sunday to hopefully beat the weather....we shall see
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