NAVIGATION SKILLS COURSE

Another Navigation Skills course in June met with perfect weather as Craig, David and Jim met with some complex routefinding in the Silver Howe area of Langdale. This must be one of the most badly mapped parts of the Lake District with numerous errors relating to path positions, but it's also an excellent area for learning to Navigate. Day 2 was spent on Cold Pike and the Crinkles, providing training on a beautiful part of the higher fells. Navigation Skills courses run on the first and third weekends in every month.

SCAFELL PIKE - THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE

SCAFELL PIKE AT 3am - WAS IT WORTH IT??
Three Peaks challengers Penny Neal and her team from Superdrug arrived at Wasdale Head recently at 3am to walk Scafell as the second part of their Three Peaks Challenge. Still weather with temperature inversions meant a damp and misty start in the dark from Wasdale - no bad thing as at 3am the best tactic is simply to focus on the next footstep....We slogged our way up Brown Tongue, and as we traversed across below Pikes Crag we suddenly came out of the cloying mist and into the most magnificent sunrise. Soon, the cloud lay below us as we looked out towards Gable, Skiddaw and the higher Lakeland Peaks peeping out above the inversion. Was it worth it? - unquestionably - it was brilliant!