Monday 17 December 2012

Ski Touring in the Lakes

It’s taken me a little while to write this up, but me and Stu had a proper mountain day ski touring in the Lakes last week.
There was really good snow cover, a bit hard, due to freezing conditions, but great fun non-the less.  The best and definitely funniest bit was skiing and navigating in a complete whiteout.  At one point i skied headfirst into a big bank of snow I just didn’t know was there.
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Skiing up onto Stybarrow Dodd…we could still see at this point!
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Looking West towards Keswick.
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The Back (north) face of Stybarrow Dodd.  It was ICY!!
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Stu looking very relaxed as always.
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River crossing on skies…how did it all end?!
It’s gotten warm and wet since, but it’ll be back for sure and we’ll keep posting when it does.
Cheers
Mark