Wanderings up North

I  had a few chats with Darron Linney (@hillwalker66) through last week, he was out over the wknd so i arranged to meet up with him early on Saturday morning  I arrived early and parked up in Langdale,i quickly got changed and had my breakfast and was soon heading upwards in the early morning light Turning around revealed some lovely dawn light hitting the peaks on the other side of the valley  Darron had camped on Cold pike and had brought his new Hilleberg tent with him, its a fine looking beast of a shelter...he kindly offered me a brew and then we were on the off, to walk along snow covered ridges  The views from the summit of Crinkle crags was a fine one indeed, as the fresh wind whistled the clouds over head...nice short clip of it on the video at end of this post It was to be a spind drifty sort of day with the windchill up in the -10c range...

With my furry friend not able to make the fells anymore, i had to put up with my friend Lee's company for this trip, but he is very good company We didn't meet till 9-45, but once parked up we were soon off, to make it a bit longer we walked down and then up over Snarker pike and then onto red Screes summit, before a drop to the pass and a last pull unto to the main ridge again   We saw and caught the edge of a few of the showers you could see roaming over the fells with many rainbows to be seen near and far. Once back up onto the main ridge of Dove crag the Northerly wind made itself known and had us reaching for gloves and zipping up tops  We picked up water close to camp and were soon brewing up each in our own shelter There was some great light but sadly some cloud out in the west closed down our view of the sunset,so i wondered back to my shelter and had another brew watching the clouds ...