Yesterday, me and some friends (GeX, his dad, brother and viv) went for a walk to burn off some of the extra christmas weight!
I don't think we were 100% what we'd let ourselves in for. We decieded to to kentmere in the lake district, and do the walk round the surrounding mountains.
As we got nearer in the car, we could see snow up where we'd be walking. We parked up, piled on the warm clothes and set off. 10mins later i was removing the extra warm clothes as i was way to hot!
It was an experience, and took us around 6/7hours to do the full walk. A large part of the walk was done in blizzard conditions, very strong wind and lots of snow - the snow was coming sideways, instead of down. Perfectly horizontal snow, odd. We stopped around halfway round for lunch, it was a semi shelted spot. GeX's dad started digging the snow out the way we made a semi cosy place to eat our partially frozen sandwhichs and drink our ice cold drinks. It was odd, sat there with snow going over the top of my head!
It was rather cold up there, i was wearing motorbike gloves which kept me hands snug - but meant i couldnt eat with them on. My hands went rather blue at lunch!
annnway, lots of walking later made it back to the car - all feeling a bit pooped. I still ache a bit now! Heres some pics:
around halfway up the first 'lump'
bit further on, you can see this mountain actually producing cloud. climate creation in progress. looked awesome. we climbed that peak later.
can't remeber which way this one is looking, if its over halfway round and looking down into the valley, then them peaks in the distance - we climbed those earlier in the day. sorry its corrupt the image, cant sus out why its doing that
not sure about this one, looks pwetty tho.
again, not sure which side this was taken from. can u guess i didnt take the pictures!
that'd be GeX's dad, our trusty navigator! I'm pretty sure the peaks in the far background are the ones we climbed later that day.
Unfortunatly, my monitor doesnt do dark images well so ive got no idea whats going on in this one. I do like the sky in it tho.
larger versions are here, with the odd corrupt one.
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~delta666/kentmere04/thumbs/
What did you lot do on Tuesday then? hehe!
I don't think we were 100% what we'd let ourselves in for. We decieded to to kentmere in the lake district, and do the walk round the surrounding mountains.
As we got nearer in the car, we could see snow up where we'd be walking. We parked up, piled on the warm clothes and set off. 10mins later i was removing the extra warm clothes as i was way to hot!
It was an experience, and took us around 6/7hours to do the full walk. A large part of the walk was done in blizzard conditions, very strong wind and lots of snow - the snow was coming sideways, instead of down. Perfectly horizontal snow, odd. We stopped around halfway round for lunch, it was a semi shelted spot. GeX's dad started digging the snow out the way we made a semi cosy place to eat our partially frozen sandwhichs and drink our ice cold drinks. It was odd, sat there with snow going over the top of my head!
It was rather cold up there, i was wearing motorbike gloves which kept me hands snug - but meant i couldnt eat with them on. My hands went rather blue at lunch!
annnway, lots of walking later made it back to the car - all feeling a bit pooped. I still ache a bit now! Heres some pics:
around halfway up the first 'lump'
bit further on, you can see this mountain actually producing cloud. climate creation in progress. looked awesome. we climbed that peak later.
can't remeber which way this one is looking, if its over halfway round and looking down into the valley, then them peaks in the distance - we climbed those earlier in the day. sorry its corrupt the image, cant sus out why its doing that
not sure about this one, looks pwetty tho.
again, not sure which side this was taken from. can u guess i didnt take the pictures!
that'd be GeX's dad, our trusty navigator! I'm pretty sure the peaks in the far background are the ones we climbed later that day.
Unfortunatly, my monitor doesnt do dark images well so ive got no idea whats going on in this one. I do like the sky in it tho.
larger versions are here, with the odd corrupt one.
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~delta666/kentmere04/thumbs/
What did you lot do on Tuesday then? hehe!
