Got an early start yesterday so we could head up Buttermere and do a few fells. Conditions were near perfect, blue skyes, no wind and we nearly had the place to ourselves.
Heading out, the roads were of course ungritted as soon as we left the main road
As we passed Loweswater, we looked over to notice that it was completely frozen over. I wasn't about to make the News by going out on it though!
Parked up near a farm just passed Buttermere village.
We headed up out of the valley towards Seat, and then Wainwrights favourite, Haystacks. The snow was amazing, just feet of pure powder. I've never seen it like that in the Lakes, it's always icy and slushy. This was like being in the Alps.
We had a conversation with some locals:
And then a quick pose for the album!
We pushed on in the difficult conditions. (actually there's a couple of steep bits on Haystacks that were proper tricky with all that powder about)
We reached the tarns on top of Haystacks, they were solid as a rock.
Walking on towards Honister Slate Mine.
Ski tracks:
Past the mine, we picked up the Honister pass road back down into Buttermere and the car.
Overall, a classic winter day in the lakes, hopefully It'll hang around for next weekend too. We may do something bigger!