Start point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970)
Walna Scar car park – Boo Tarn – The Old Man of Coniston – Low Water – Walna Scar car park
Distance: 4 miles Total Ascent: 580 metres Time Taken: 4 hours
Weather: Misty and murky, valley level. Clear above 450m. 5°C.
Another temperature inversion was predicted for today, so Connie and I set off for the summit of Coniston Old Man in the mist to try and get some sunshine above the grey, murky conditions below. This was also a milestone for 5 year old Connie – her highest fell yet – by far, and a great achievement for her. Alas, the conditions were not as good as yesterday as the temperature in the valleys had warmed up, so although we got above the hazy, mist layer into the sunshine, there wasn’t the great waves of thick cloud that I witnessed yesterday. Eskdale looked the place to be – there was plenty of inversion going on over there.

A hazy view of Coniston from above the quarry. Remarkably, to the top right, Ingleborough and Whernside can be seen above the cloud layer over in Yorkshire.

The hazy, mist layer still persists to the south, here looking towards Walna Scar with the mist over Torver High Common.

Strange atmospheric conditions; there is almost an inverse mirror of Coniston Water by the cloud bar above.

Looking across to Eskdale, the peaks appearing above the cloud with the mist swirling on and off the Scafells on the extreme right.