Pint size adventures

Written by ned

Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:13

One of the best qualities of the lakes is its ability to dish out little pint sized, mini adventures. The recent cold snap may have locked up the rivers and dried them to near drought levels, but the on the flip side, that has created some of the best and most stable snow and ice conditions for years. Hard packed neve snow is now accessible in only a short time window!

One day last week I got to work in the morning and worked through till lunchtime, then grabbed some time off in the afternoon and get onto the hills by 1. Crampons and axes came out around 1.30 and a couple of hours of chipping away later, having remembered how nice moving on hard snow is, I was heading down. Back to the car by 4.30. There I bumped into a mate who had been on the same agenda. Family tea at 5, then the pub at 9 for the obligatory swapping of stories.

A classic lakes living day.

Pics and video from my phone sorry but the new camera is 'in the post' :-)!