The Lakes

I've had two weekends up in the hills in the lake district, in glorious sun and tshirt/shorts temperatures in the last month and I am starting to believe it's always sunny there!
(picture above Pike o Blisco in Feb)
This weekend, after being put back together by Kim I had enough range of movement in my hip to do a bit of work on my ascending skills! I had decided the open5 wasn't the moment to check I could run or bike so on saturday I headed off up Harter Fell on a gentle run to test the waters, and as that was ok ish, I decided to recce the Coniston fell race route on the Sunday. Best idea ever! Blue sky and snow made for great views, and wetherlam proved a challenge to practice ascending on! I wore my Mudclaw 330s which coped well, even on the compact frozen snow, although I did take a bit more care on the sheet ice we found going up swirl how. The X talons Wil was wearing appeared to do a better job on the slippier sections (but I think part of that was who was wearing them....)
The best line down from Old Man was dangerous due to compact snow ( I didn't fancy a repeat of my sledging incident off Red Brook in the Kinder Trial - There was further to go off Old Man!) so we diverted a bit - will have to check it out again before the race. Now I have to wait and see if my entry made it in in time! Fingers crossed!