Old Man of Coniston

Old Man of Coniston

Bryn Posey

A rough night, A rough camp site although they did have ham sandwiches for a £1, which after 4 days of dried food was legend.

The trail started up a nice track crossing streams bordered by ferns and wandering sheep. Then as always the clouds came in and the rocks reared themselves from the bed of the trail. All the way slate and rock made us side step and second guess our footing. The trail passed through an old quarry the remnants of the workers buildings and the ironwork they used to lift equipment and slate down the mountain side.

The pace was relentless and we kept the pressure on until as six times before the trig point rose in front of us, our seventh peak in the bag. I actually felt we could do this we could make it with out gaining any further injuries and without to much more heart ache.