A weekend trip staying in Boot, the venue for a decade of CUHWC New Year trips. We had fantastic weather, and did many of the classic Eskdale fells.
Brotherikeld and the Eskdale fells
Saturday 8:33 AM
Brock Crag
Saturday 8:55 AM
Snowy peaks peek from behind the foothills
Saturday 9:25 AM
DC, Alison, Dave and Ruth in the sunshine
Saturday 9:26 AM
Herdwick sentinels before the cloud
Saturday 9:40 AM
Dave, Alison, DC, Ruth and Joe in the snow on Sca Fell
Saturday 11:24 AM
Dave returns from photographing Burnmoor Tarn
Saturday 11:37 AM
stitched with hugin
Saturday 11:38 AM
Is that the Matterhorn?
Saturday 1:56 PM
Ruth and Alison on Broad Crag - can you tell them apart?
Saturday 2:41 PM
Alison (with eyes open)
Saturday 2:55 PM
North and east panorama from Great End
Saturday 2:59 PM
Serried ranks of Dunnerdale fells
Saturday 3:54 PM
Esk Pike summit
Saturday 3:54 PM
Sca Fell and the Pike, featuring Broad Stand and Mickledore
Saturday 4:47 PM
Sunset sky
Saturday 5:26 PM
More sunset, with reflection in the Esk
Saturday 5:28 PM
Sunday pre-walk photo: Hare Crag
Sunday 12:07 PM
Hard Knott in the morning
Sunday 12:10 PM
Eskdale from Hardknott Pass
Sunday 12:20 PM
Hardknott Roman Fort (Mediobogdum) and Eskdale
Sunday 12:30 PM
Similar view from above the granaries, with figures for scale
Sunday 12:34 PM
Border End stands proud above the fort's parade ground
Sunday 12:37 PM
Sca Fell behind a sheep-strewn rise
Sunday 12:39 PM
Looking down on the fort and its parade ground from Border End
Sunday 12:55 PM
Scafell range from Border End, revealing yesterday's route
Sunday 1:02 PM
I met Robin, Sabine, Becky, Jack and Gordon on the way up Border End
Sunday 1:17 PM
Ben and Gordon at the top
Sunday 1:20 PM
Becky
Sunday 1:27 PM
Jack
Sunday 1:28 PM
Ben on the summit cairn
Sunday 1:31 PM
"Interesting" descent
Sunday 1:43 PM
Toby and Ben
Sunday 1:45 PM
Another view of Mediobogdum and Eskdale
Sunday 1:51 PM
Harter Fell and the fort
Sunday 2:10 PM
Sca Fell picked out by a beam of sunlight
Sunday 2:11 PM
We met David's group just before we finished our walk
Sunday 2:12 PM
Emily
Sunday 2:20 PM