It only took around an hour and forty minutes to reach Hartsop from Wigan and that's with mid afternoon traffic which is a pretty convenient location for any off the cuff walk such as todays. I was right not to worry too much about parking having options where to park on arrival yet Hartsop despite this, still felt deserted. I'm back to wearing shorts again but in hindsight my decision might be too soon feeling the cool wind during kit up, ahh well I thowt, the steep ascent onto Hartsop Dodd will put a stop to that.
I locked the car and threw my pack over shoulder then threaded my other arm through the strap, it was right about here that I noticed little droplets of rain hitting my jacket but didn't put it down to anything other than a little 'rain in the air' unbeknown to me, the heavens are about to open.
At the time I hadn't gained enough height to see which direction the shower was coming from which thankfully after around fifteen minutes petered out into nothing with just the odd droplet in the air, up ahead strong sunlight had broken through striking the nose of the fell and through the glistening light, it was still raining quite heavily. It bodes well to sit the shower out until it passes.
After the shower, superb clarity and more striking sunlight. |