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Eastern Birketts and Wainwright collecting,MLD Duomid XL May 2022

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A few emails and messages and we had arranged to meet up on the Cold fell road with my brother and James (JKM) who i know from Trek-lite  The first peak involved less than 500 m of walking ! Swarth fell done we strolled over to Burn edge and then onto Blakely Raise....3 new peaks for me  It was a near perfect conditions for walking around 14c and a nice breeze,the first Wainwright was Grike,the forest shown on the map has all been removed now  We enjoyed a bite to eat on Crag hill while just soaking in the views around us,you could even see someone on a paddle board down on Ennerdale water  We then had a nice walk around and over Iron crag before picking up lots of water for our camp,after collecting Caw fell summit we spent 20 mins searching out a nice pitch,as the wind had picked up some.We found it towards the eastern end of the Caw fell ridge and the wind died away around 7 pm ish    I had received my new MLD Duomid XL a few days before so it was nice to pitch it out on the hill  I