Skiddaw, slippery all the way

Wow the last peak of day 2 as we go up some of the views are fantastic, then our friend the cloud closes in on us, blurring our view dulling our senses. The simple sound of the wind and the mist making it almosr seem like we where hiking in a dream.

The Forest leading up to Skiddaw allowed as an amazing view of longside edge looming over us. Then the climb began I haven't climbed walked in many places where my knees where almost touching my chest for majority of the way up. You reach a point we turned and looked back at the massive valley opening up behind and below us, it was beautiful. As we climbed we could suddenly see the clouds actually forming in front of us and the wind actually bending the cloud over the hill it was a perfect arc of cloud. We crossed the saddle and the ground began to climb but it was almost all shale and even more steep than the first two thirds. The clouds hugged us even more and the floor itself was almost black absolutely surreal. we climbed a ridge and then turned to right and headed for the trig point, it just never seemed to arrive then out of the mist it loomed ahead of us and we had made it.

A quick smile and a hand shake and we turned and began the ascent an hour or so later we where sat at the bottom with Tim eating our tea. Amazing

Bryn