Start point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970)
Walna Scar road – The Cove – Goat’s Water – South Rake – Dow Crag – Buck Pike – Blind Tarn – Cove Bridge – Walna Scar road
Distance: 5 miles Total Ascent: 577 metres Time Taken: 2 hours 15 minutes
Weather: Some sunny spells. 16ºC.
The Coniston fells cut the weather in half today; to the north-east all was overcast and to the south-west was much sunnier and brighter – guess which way I opted for! I climbed up to Dow Crag by the South Rake, a scree filled gully which is a scramble, not a walk (so be warned!). I made a pathless and steep descent to Blind tarn beneath Brown Pike to have a closer look at this often walked above, but not around, tarn.

It's hard to work out what the weather will do. One minute it is clear, the next the mist comes across to obliterate everything. Goat's Water, as usual, is a wind tunnel.