Day 2 we decided to try and get to the Old Man. I am not too sure about the difficulty of the hills in the Lakes or lengths taken as I haven't been able to find the same detailed walk reports as we have on here for the Scottish hills which are usually spot on. We set off early to try and get a head start before the heat picked up, as it happened the sun never came out until the evening which actually helped!
We set off along the main path to the right which was pretty straight forward
That path starts to gradually rise and it looked like we might be getting some blue skies
A couple that we kept bumping into on the route up called us over to this spot as it was nice and cool, they weren't kidding. It was amazing the cool draft, I actually had goosebumps at one stage. Sister and Penny keeping cool
By now any hope of blue skies and sunshine had gone but I wasn't to complain as it would have been too much for the dog as we were already looking at the last stretch, I tend to get a little paranoid about her now she is 10. We aimed for the top agreeing that shold she look tired we would turn back, well I couldn't keep up with her leaping up on the bigger boudlers charging on to the top
Before the final stretch we enjoyed a good rest at the lovely tarn, it was here that Penny shocked me by going in to just below her chest.. wish I had caught that on camera!
Penny the mountain goat
Quite atmospheric views from the top
Looking back to the tarn
Penny with one of the only views we got!
Even though we didn't get any proper views from the top, it was one of those walks that had a 'something' about it.
The Lake District is a great place as there is so many hills confined to the area. Penny is a whippet but she is a slightly larger one and not the small racing type. She does well as I don't see many of her breed out on the hills but have to watch her with the heat as she doesn't like it and especially with her age now too.
