It’s been a difficult week weather wise, my original plan for today was to walk the Kentmere Round from Kentmere but from around midweek I knew I had to shelve the plan with all the weather warnings & that. My feeling’s were I didn’t want to be against the clock on such a long walk, drudging in & out of kick holes, you get the idea, so it was to be a bit more low key & somewhere I’m a bit more familiar with after all during the week I’m making plans for summating & probably no views even up until the previous night I had no idea what the weather had in store for me all I knew it was going to be a cold one.
My original plan for this walk was to tackle Brock Crags from Hartsop, then Rest Dodd then go on to summit The Nabb flanking Rest Dodd to summit on the return then finally summit The Knott, I don’t know who’s boots I was wearing when I planned this route but I think I certainly under estimated the route in between Rest Dodd & The Nabb really is a tough section & to be honest I don’t think today I had the energy nor the time in fact I’m certain on the latter.
So going back to my route from Hartsop was a bit tricky to say the least, not my route I might add,but the road conditions, driving along the Ullswater Road (A592) had had a recent dusting of snow the previous night It was probably a couple of inches thick but enough to obscure driving conditions, the cheeks’ were definitely getting a bit twitchy as the car struggled & swayed up minor hills & all of the road that was visible was the centre broken white lines. I made it in to Glenridding thinking ‘Paul’ you may have to turn round & head home, next came Patterdale & the road just got worse, a 4X4 Police car lights blazing overtook me & that was when I decided I couldn’t go any further, I might make it down the hills in the snow but a return up them I had no chance & the Kirkstone Pass wasn’t even an option to drive home after the walk, I found a suitable space & turned the car around & headed back in the direction of Patterdale.
From Patterdale it was to be, and I wasn’t to be disappointed. |