Wanderings up North

Have landed at 8 am back from our family holiday i was jet lagged but keen for hills.A few messages confirmed Lee was heading out later in the day, some unpacking and then rucksack packing and we met up at Troutbeck at 4 pm   It was a lovely evening with a chill still in the wind,we only went to Yoke and were camped up by 6 pm  Although fatigued it was good to back in my normal environment  Just after we'd eaten my phone pinged, it was Kate who was over on Red Screes but had thought of bivying on Yoke too ! Tea was another of the excellent Bla Bland ones, sadly my last one,I will have to sort out a new order for the rest of summer and my Sweden trip in late August I slept like the dead and woke to a stunning morning, there was a light ground frost but Oscars bowl had frozen over 5mm thick  There was a nice inversion that slowly came into...

After last wknds excellent weather,it was expecting too much to get another one in before my family holiday,but i had agreed i would try and meet some of the Trek-lite lads who were out on the hills. Sadly i was to find there rumoured "Bad weather trips" was not unfounded :)   I managed to get home,packed and up to Langdale for 4 pm and was soon hoofing it up the valley,plan was to meet at Sprinkling tarn The wind chased us up the valley with the hint of bad weather to come,i cut a bit off and followed the stream up,as the old path used to,i got about 2/3's of the way up before it hit..big gusting rain with a vary wind speeds.....i was glad it was at my back  I was happy as i walked over the crest of the col to see some Cuben fastened to the hillside above Angle tarn,i got Oscar to bark and got a wave from a figure as i wondered down.two shelters were already pitched and i said my hellos quickly and after a chat in Rog...