Another circuit of Lower Eskdale to salvage a couple of days from the wettest July for decades. It was largely dull and overcast but the morning at the tent pitch was superb and more than compensated for the dull skies later.
We had been promising ourselves a pitch on Hard Knott for ages and the weather rose to the occasion: it was among the finest morning views we have ever had in the summer months, including a lovely inversion over the sea and valleys to the south with Harter Fell peeping through the cloud. For the first time ever we also saw an afternoon inversion which formed locally before our eyes in the Eskdale valleys, a rare but short lived phenomenon.
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Wow! some really great pictures of this trip, especially of the clouds so low over the mountains, looks amazing. good blog, keep it up!
Thanks tog, one of those great inversion mornings and rare in summer.
I’m sitting here looking out of the window and lamenting the fine weather going to waste:- other commitments this week.