Weather not so good today. Strong winds forecast so the higher fells were not an option.
A short walk was planned on Little Mell.
Wainwright described a 30 minute outing to the top of the fell from the hause between Cove Park and Lowthwaite.
Opening the car door soon warned us of the strength of the wind, almost blowing the door off its hinges. 'Never mind - only a short outing' we thought.
Followed an obvious track directly up to the summit but the wind was relentless fortunately behind us on the ascent. On the summit mound we were battling to stay upright and did not linger for the views over Ullswater. The descent, now into the wind, was very hard work. We made more of a zig zag down to try and get some respite but were glad to be back at the car.
Any plans to do Great Mell Fell were soon overruled.
Time 25 minutes!
Grade An excellent blow!
Completed 33 - To go 181
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