Start point: Gale Road End (NY 281 253)
Gale Road End – Skiddaw Lesser Man – Skiddaw Little Man – Skiddaw – Jenkin Hill – Lonscale Fell – Lonscale Pike – Latrigg – Gale Road End
Distance: 8.5 miles Total Ascent: 860 metres Time Taken: 4 hours 30 minutes Start Time: 07:00
Weather: Beautiful sunshine above the haze. 5°C
I was up early again today to catch the sunrise and it was well worth it to see the beautiful rising sun across a temperature inversion. Once above the haze layer the air was very clear – a fantastic and memorable day to be out on the fells.
The Hawell Monument, pre-dawn.
The Coledale fells and a pinky pre-sunrise sky.
The sun appears on the horizon.
A sunny glow above the haze.
A warming glow.
Climbing higher, a fabulous sunrise and inversion to the east.
Skiddaw Little Man in the dawn glow.
Blencathra and the view to the east.
Skiddaw Lesser Man.
Skiddaw Little Man looking down to Lesser and the Helvellyn massif beyond.
Dougally Doo...no Casper today so you are on your own lad.
Clear skies now above the layer of haze.
The Ullock Pike ridge.
Catbells to Scafells.
Mono layers.
On the summit plateau looking down on Little Man.
The Ullock Pike ridge and Bassenthwaite Lake, beyond there is a heavy covering of cloud across the sea.
What a fabulous day.
The air was very clear and hardly a breath of wind today.
Well worth taking a photo or two.
The back o' Skidda.
Skiddaw summit.
The Lakeland giants across Derwent Water.
Descending to Lonscale Fell.
The mist is clearing a bit as the sun warms up.
Warmer, but not that warm.
Skiddaw from Lonscale Fell.
A panorama of loveliness.
Blencathra from Lonscale Pike.
The view from Lonscale Pike.
The steep descent.
Following the track back toward Latrigg, the green hill on the left.
The Coledale fells from Latrigg.
A.W?
Skiddaw from Latrigg.