Wednesday 3rd May  ~  Helvellyn and Raise

top of Browncove Crags  ~ blowing force 5-6 ~ the trick is to keep the pointy end into the wind!

The Fellsphoto Gallery:  view from Browncove Crags en route for Helvellyn

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The Fellsphoto Gallery:  Helvellyn summit

View south-east over Striding Edge and St Sunday Crag to High Street:

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Kim on the cairn at the top of Swirral Edge. Just what I was looking for - a wind break!

click in picture to see Brown Cove and Swirral Edge from Whiteside

Raise 2889ft  ~  the freezing force 5 wind is not apparent in the picture - but it was blowing the tripod over!

Bassenthwaite Lake at far left:  Skiddaw (centre left), Blencathra (distant right), Stybarrow Dodd (near right), Sticks Pass below

the pictures he was taking:

The Fellsphoto Gallery:  view north from the summit of Raise 

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As of today my favourite food on the hill is ready-to-eat apricots. I presume that's one's for me.

The Fellsphoto Gallery: the view North to Skiddaw from here:

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Still windy down here!

This silly ewe will keep walking in front of me  ~  I'll have to send in my human to move it out of the way!

Thursday 4th May  ~  Skiddaw and Lonscale Fell

Skiddaw from Keswick (the George Fisher climbing shop webcam)

today's Lake District mountain weather

lunch on the top  ~  sheltering from the wind behind the summit shelter

Skiddaw summit 3054ft and the Force is with us ~ Force 7 in fact!

The Beaufort Wind Scale

Force 7: Moderate to near Gale, 32-38 mph, becoming difficult to walk

The Fellsphoto Gallery: view from the Skiddaw summit indicator:

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time to get off here before we get blown away

What's next?  Lonscale Fell ......

more lying around while he takes pictures of the back o' Skiddaw - Blencathra in the background

His picture:

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In the meantime: I was hoping there'd be some more of those apricots in there!

on top of Lonscale Fell, 2344ft

The Fellsphoto Gallery: view south to Helvellyn from Lonscale Fell

(the reverse of the view from Browncove Crags, Helvellyn)

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The Fellsphoto Gallery: view west and north from Lonscale Fell

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descending Lonscale Fell  ~  Derek Scrimgeour's sheep ahead!

Are you sure we can't round them up?

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