Start point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)
Kiln Bank Cross – Park Head Road – Long Mire – Caw (OF) – Park Head Road – Kiln Bank Cross
Distance: 3.5 miles Total Ascent: 300 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 20 minutes Start Time: 12:00
Weather: Freezing.0°C
I think I struck lucky with the weather today – the prediction was for an inversion but that didn’t seem particularly likely as I could see the fell tops through grey gloom and it was windy but as I started walking the sky began to clear. It was certainly cold and there was a strong wind as well making the temperature well below zero up there.
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It was windier than you might have thought up here as my two able companions demonstrate - and that means it was incredibly cold...not a place to hang around for too long today.
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Casper and Dougal look down on Seathwaite and the Duddon Valley with a fine view to Pillar and the Scafells, Harter Fell in the foreground.