Latrigg

A wet windy day. Initial thoughts whilst driving towards Ambleside was a walk up Lingmoor but, with the rain lashing down and the rough water of Windermere looking more like the sea than a lake, we made the desicion to drive on up to Keswick and tackle Latirgg.
Unfortunately the weather got worse as we drove north. On reaching the car park at Ornathwaite we knew we had made a sensible choice. Full waterproof gear on, we set off down the path heading for Keswick. A short way along, the route to the top headed off up to the leftand soon joined the other " reduced mobility" path (what a good idea) comming up from the car park. Now we were walking directly into lashing rain, very sore on the face and dripping wet to the skin despite the waterproofs. Soon reached a bench from which on a good day glorious views over Keswick would have opened up. Today nothing! The path now heading north westish traversed the summit and heading down the grassy slopes became very slippery. The pleasure of the easing and now being sheltered from the wind soon diminished with one lack of concentration, a loss of grip on the rigth foot and bump down on to the mud flat on my back. Fortunately no anatomical damage, just shaken pride and tron waterporrf trousers - which weren't living up to their name anyway.

Soon the track back to the car park came into sight just below and doubling back on ourselves we headed back for shelter. The slopes of Skidaw were only visible upto about 300ft above then thick mist. However we still saw folk heading up the mountain. Are we soft or are they stupid?

Time 50 minutes
Grade Excellent short walk for bad weather

Memories Very very wet . New waterproof trousers needed!

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