Wanderings up North

So the first camp of 2019 came in on the 19th Jan with a camp on Hart crag,with Lee No views on the way up and all night,but the next door brought some very nice light Next was a camp on Castle How,with Lee, above the Langdales on a day of deep snow,in the valley approaches March 23rd saw me pitched up on Grey Friar summit  The week after saw me camped on Rannerdale,with Matt  April 13th saw me spend two nights on a loop of Mallerstang,with Lee again    April 19th saw me return to Scotland to collect the Ben Starava munros,for Lees munro round ,with 2 nites camping  5th of May saw me camped just of Crinkle crags ridgeline  Sadly the 18th of May saw a few of meet up to remember Kate Tyler who sadly left us all...Rip Kate...with Ste,Dan and Shirley The next night i camped out with one of my brothers,Ross, who was visiting from his home in Vancovour,Red Screes was ch

At long last a bit of nice cold weather so i planned a trip out for 2 nites above the Langdales,two lads had messaged about meeting up.I met one briefly Sunday morning near camp,the other came up Saturday so we walked a bit then camped with him I finished work and drove up under blue skies, hoisting my rucksack onto my back a little before 2pm  It was nice to be walking upwards in cold air but with some warmth from the sun on my back,i had planned on camping on Pike o Stickle but as soon as i had cleared the ravine path,i could see someone pitched there.... You can see the pitch thieve on the summit here,hie Scarp just below him,i wwalked over after i had pitched and we had a chat...as a helicopter hovered around Great End before flying over us and back down the valley  As i chatted with Joseph (wildcountrycamping on Instagram) i took this naff photo as it flew away For this trip i brought my MLD Duomid and my Oookworks inner