Start point: Scales (NY 349 272)
Scales – Scales Fell – Blencathra – Scales Fell – Scales
Distance: 5.3 miles Total Ascent: 660 metres Time Taken: 2 hours 25 minutes Start Time: 07:00
Following on from yesterday’s fabulous walk up to Scafell Pike, conditions looked as though they may be the same today so I really fancied witnessing the conditions from a different perspective so it was up to Scales early to head for Blencathra summit for the sunrise. Unfortunately there is no one that can predict the weather or conditions with 100% accuracy and on this occasion the weather did not play as predicted! Ho-hum, you can’t win them all…
Well I did make it for sunrise in plenty of time but the expected conditions were not there. The cloud was low but above the fell tops. Helvellyn was covered in cloud but there was cloud dropping into St John's in the Vale and Threlkeld making it look like an inversion may be on the cards...but alas, no!
Low sun into low cloud gave a strange sunrise - linear light to the east with virtually nothing to the west.
Looking to the south west it is dull, Derwent Water cloaked in cloud.
Diminutive Binsey shows through the mist.
Lenticualr clouds, strange sky and conditions.
Sharp Edge from the descent - someone is already crossing.
Scales Fell and a brief clearing of the sky...now I am on the way down!