After breakfast Rob and I left early for the mountains. By 9:30 AM we were parked and set to climb
Above: the mountains we were set to climb
Above: view from the top of the lake district
Below: cairns or rock mounds mark the top of the Old Man of Coniston
Below: glacial cirque lake or tarn
Below: memorial to the young Canadian airmen that were 6 feet too low and hit the mountain
Below: remains of the aircraft next to the memorial
Above: a tarn lake in the amphitheatre ...glaciated topography. We climbed over very rocky surfaces.
four mountains: Old Man of Coniston, Brim Fell, Swirl How, and Prison Band. It was an exhilarating 6 hour trek, over very rocky surfaces. You had to be mindful of every step, figuring out where you would place each foot, but it worked with no twisted ankles. To begin with the calves complained but they recovered soon with the rapid ascent thank goodness. Rob is an experienced mountaineer. He has all the right equipment and has climbed most of the mountains in the region, often on his own, and in winter too when conditions can be dangerous. We had great weather for our climb. We stopped for lunch at Swirl How and replenished energy. Then we went to a mountain called Great Carrs and saw a memorial to 8 Canadian airmen killed on a training flight in 1944 on this mountain. There were many tarn lakes that we travelled around or saw from above. Many Hardwick sheep, brown, black, white, grey were grazing on the mountains. Our journey was a circular route and we came back to the car parked at the base of the mountains. Rob drove us to Trover, where we had a beer at a pub as a reward, then we returned to Ulverston. After supper we went to Manjushri ( Buddha of wisdom) monastery, where we both attended a puja ( service) in the temple. I met many of Rob's friends, monks, nuns, lay and ordained. It was a very peaceful puja after a strenuous day of climbing. Thanks for checking in!!
Below: the rock buttress
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