Start point: Bottom of Kirkstone Pass (NY 402 113)
Kirkstone Pass – Hartsop Hall – Dovedale – Dove Crag – Bakestones Moss – Little Hart Crag – High Hartsop Dodd – Kirkstone Pass
Distance: 6.4 miles Total Ascent: 730 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 30 minutes
Weather: Strong wind, snow flurries. -2ºC.
It was really cold this morning again but the blue sky and crisp clearness of the weekend was gone to be replaced by strong winter weather. All was icy and frozen around Kirkstone Pass with heavy snow flurries at first. Once on the climb to Dovedale the wind really picked up and on the Dove Crag ridge it was severe and walking was difficult at times. When I got back to valley level I felt like I had taken a real pounding up there.

Blimey, it was cold this morning when I set off. This photo of Middle Dodd and Kirkstone Beck looks cold too.

A frosty wall - mono photos seemed to match the conditions better than colour a lot of the time I thought.

A bit of blue sky up there on the final part of the climb to Dove Crag. It all looks calm in this photo but the wind was picking up now making it feel even colder.

All hell was let loose once up onto the Dove Crag ridge with very strong winds and painful spindrift.