Today we had a great walk - I've already posted about Sharp Edge - which was superb - a great scramble
click here but adding in the two other Wainwrights made a day of it. After Blencathra we walked onto Knowe Crags as the light down St John's in the Vale was lovely; then back across to Atkinson Pike and then across a peaty expanse onto Mungrisdale Common. This is a Wainwright, but it is singularly un-impressive - although it does have good views around it ... Wainwright himself isn't overly effusive in his book on the Northern Fells '
To add to its other failings Mungrisdale Common does not lend itself to illustration. Most fells have at least one aspect, but the common, from whatever side it is seen, has no more pretension to elegance than a pudding that has been sat on' ...and he has a point! After this we cut across the plateau, which was damp - even though it has been relatively dry, to the head of the Glenderamackin and then onto Bannerdale Crags top before returning to the col and back down the Glenderamackin before returning to the White Horse at Scales for a quick pint. Superb!
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| Sharp Edge and Scales tarn. |
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| Through St John's in the Vale; back of Skiddaw and Knowe Crags. |
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St John's in the Vale
Then onto Mungrisdale Common with views across to High Pike and then onto Bannerdale Crags...and then the sun disappeared behind Blencathra.
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