Scales – Blencathra (Scales Fell – Doddick Fell – Hallsfell Top – Gategill Fell – Known Crags – Blease Fell – Atkinson Pike) – Scales
Distance: 12.7 km Total Ascent: 745 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes (moving time) Start Time: 10:55
The wintry weather continued in the Lake District so I headed north today to make the most of it and wow, I wasn’t disappointed. This was a perfect winter’s day one of the best and very enjoyable on one of my favourite fells. There was a surprising bit of cloud around the summit for a while but when that cleared it was indeed magical. What a great day out on the fells!


A beautiful sun filled sky but the temperatures were sub-zero still. It was warm enough climbing in the sunshine though and the going was easy in soft snow.

The Pennines to the east. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, blue skies everywhere with all the fells being visible...

...until we got to the top of Scales fell when there was one fell covered in cloud - and we were on it!

Climbing higher the wind really picked so it was time to layer up and get the micro-spikes on at the same time.

Blencathra summit. It was like Piccadilly Circus behind me so I carried on across the summit to see if I could get out of the cloud again.

Superb! Depending on where you were on the ridge, the wind was quite fierce - you can see the spindrift in the sky in this photo.