Friday 22 March 2013

21st March Lakes conditions

Into the Wildroom  

Even with blue skies and lots of optimism a trip up towards Brown Cove Crags proved to be fruitless. 
The wind blew harder as we climbed. The snow that it had picked up from the East side of Helvellyn  was coming down and forming loads of wind slab and filling the gullies with deep powder, so a tactical retreat was the best course of action.


Spin and wind blown snow on the path up to Brown Cove Crags

Spin and wind blown snow on the path up to Brown Cove Crags

Comb Grags

Comb Crags


1 comment:

kevin walker said...

Hey, thanks for these and your blog in general . We were up there 2 months ago:
http://www.meetup.com/Yorkshire-Climbers/photos/12777822/

and it looks like conditions were better or your outing....in Spring !

Kevin