After my failed mission to the Ben with Honza I spent a couple of day's in bed, re-couping and geting rid of my horrible cough I developed. Where do these hardcore viruses come from.... This allowed me enough rest to get out with Nic on Saturday night for a bit of van camping in Wrynose Bottom, next to the Duddon near its source. With the burner going in the van we were toasty warm & got some good sleep ready for our next days mission on Sunday. We were s'posed to get an early start, but I made the classic error of re-lighting the wood burner before we got out of bed & we promptly fell back asleep in the warmth of the van. So, a late start, but no matter, head torches in packs & off we set around 12pm.

We skirted around the side of Little Stand, and headed up Mosedale. Nic was practising a bit of Nav for the on coming Highlander MM we are doing together, so she showed us the way & pointed out the mountains as we saw them or they came into view.

We headed across west under Scar Lathing and up onto Slight Side via a gully just slightly North of Horn Crag, from here we skirted the back of the next knoll and onto the summit of Scafell. Then down via Foxes Tarn, and under East Butteress by the fell runners tracks from the Bob Graham Round, upto Mickledore and then the summit of Scafell Pike. Nic was feeling the height gain in her legs after been out of action for a few months (she fell x-country skiing coming down off School Knott in Windermere when we had a excellent low level snow before Christmas and badly twisted her elbow & shoulder and then has been flat out sorting our accounts out for the last few months), but recovered well by the time we got to Broad Crag. From her we took the easy ground to get to Esk Pike & then with on coming dusk, we headed down the ridge from Esk to drop back into Mosedale via Yeastyrigg Gill and back into Mosedale. We got back to the van at about 7:45pm, using the light from my Petzl Ultra, which is like having a car headlight on your head!!

Back at the van, tired and a bit cold after walking all day with wet feet ( I was wearing my Inov-8 X-Talon 240's, ultra light weight boots that are discontinued now, but are very similar to the new Roclite 288 Gtx, but not waterproof), but Nic was fine with her Inov-8 Roclite 400's, although still pretty tired from a long day, we got the wood burner going again & sat in bliss from the heat of it, plus a great day, with beautiful weather out in the Lakeland Fells. A good recovery from a few ill day's and a failed mission to Scotland....