Last weekend, my friend Paul came up for a couple of days walking in the Lake District. There was enough snow etc for crampons and ice axe to be added to the bag. Alas, the snow had not thawed and refrozen leading to a hard slog through calf deep powder on both days.

On the Friday, we encountered what the met office refer to as "Challenging conditions" in regards to navigation. (Commonly referred to as "clag"). As we were on some broad ridges around Stybarrow Dodd, we decided to go 'Old School' and practice some bearings and pacing. (Having a GPS as back up in case we messed it up) When we took the bearings etc it was surprisingly good. When we ignored the chance and relied on line of sight, we came undone a couple of times, especially finding the shelter on Great Dodd. The picture (taken by Paul) is me trying to stop my map flying off towards Keswick whilst trying to find our next point.

Saturday, saw us take a stroll up to Red Screes, Middle Dodd and Dove Crag from Ambleside and bag a few Wainwrights (7 in total).