A week off work spent partly at home - tidying up the allotment, slating the roof of my "brew house", visiting the in laws and chasing down some of those elusive, final 2000 foot tops to complete my list. There are about 450 hills in England and Wales more than 2000 feet in height with at least 50 feet of ascent on all sides. I've done about 430 of them, but the last 20 are proving troublesome. This is because I've never approached the task in any sort of systematic way, instead I climbed hills more or less as the fancy takes me. This means that gone are the days when I'd spend a day ticking off half a dozen tops. Now I'm picking up single "outliers", overlooked on previous trips to more significant tops. Pictures here (top right) is Simon Fell in the Dales, a hill that adjoins Ingleborough. As I'd driven to Yorkshire to climb it I made (deliberately) a bit of a meal of the ascent, describing a circuitous route that crossed limestone pavements, returned via Ingleborough and Gaping Ghyll and ended with tea and cake in Clapham.
The middle of the week saw a return to the Lakes, a family trip staying in Grasmere and Patterdale YH - out via Fairfield and back via Hellvelyn. Another outlier (Seat Sandal) ticked off.
Pictured (top left) is Striding Edge.
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