Lakes in March

 The following was submitted by Paul.

Saturday at noon Paul, Bev and Colin set off from Uzzicar Farm and followed the miners track up Stoneycroft Ghyll to a cairn from where we climbed steeply up to the summit of Barrow.

The view wset from Barrow

Looking East from Causey Pike

 From there we headed west skirting Outerside rejoining the Miners track climbing up to Scar Crags along the ridge to Causey Pike and down the steep descent back to the road at Stoneycroft Farm.

Sunday dawned to gently falling snow but by the time we reached the car park at Whinlatter clear blue skies appeared promising good views from our target for the day, Grisedale Pike.

Grisedale Pike

 Alas this was not to be as we reached the NE ridge at Sleet How the snow returned and on reaching Grisedale Pike full winter conditions were in charge.
 

Sleet How

On Grisedale Pike

 Not a good place to dine so we made rapid descent in deep snow back down to Whinlatter.

Aviemore

Clive, Jago, Nick and Christine attended the March meet in Aviemore. Nick and Christine's primary objective was to add to Nick's Munro bagging score, Clive's was to add to his Corbett score while Jago just wanted some quality mountain time.   
With this in mind Nick, Christine and Jago set out to do a circuit of Monadliath Munros on Saturday. Setting out from Newtonmore they climbed A'chailleach, Carn Sgulain and Carn Dearg. By taking an anti-clockwise route they avoided walking into the strong bitter cold north easterly that blew all day and enjoyed extensive views.

An icy A'chailleach Summit

Approach to Carn Dearg

Carn Dearg Summit

 Meanwhile Clive having been dropped off at Kingussie climbed Carn na Fhreiceadain which because of its rounded nature and shooters tracks right to the summit was easier to climb than to spell. However despite the aforementioned cold wind it gave a good short days walk  

Carn na Fhreiceadain Summit.

On Sunday while Clive and Jago headed home Christine and Nick climbed Geal Charn from Laggan to bring their total to four for the weekend.

Geal Charn Summit

The view from the summit.

Lakes in February

The following was submitted by Paul

An early Saturday morning start saw Colin ,Bev and Paul setting off  from Scawgill Bridge to climb a very steep hill to the summit of  Graystones.

Broom Fell and Lords Seat

 From there we headed east to Broom Fell enjoying extensive views west to the Isle of Man and north to Scotland. Good progress was made as the normally boggy ground was frozen solid.

Broom Fell

After reaching  Broom Fell we followed the ridge round over Todd Fell to the prominent cairn of Lord's Seat.

Lords Seat

We then headed down the hill past Aiken Plantation back to the car. The weather on Sunday was not as pleasant so the short steep ascent of  Barf was made.

Barf