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Our first day on our week away in the lakes in glorious weather...best weather of the summer (at the end of September), so we decided to break ourselves in on Skidaw, being based near Keswick. A long hike in behind the massif via Skidaw house brought us to the back of Bakestall (which is quite a climb to get up) before we eventually summited.
- Jas on Skidaw
Then we dropped down the steep southern flank to Carlside
- Carl Side
before moving along the west ridge to Ullock Pike via Long Side
- Looking at Skidaw from Long Side
we then tracked back over Carl Side and traversed around Skidaw via Fox Bield and up to Little Man
- From Little Man looking at Blencathra
before finally moving along the ridge to the uninspiring Lonscale Fell
- Looking at where we've been from Lonscale Fell
before slogging back down the path and back to the car park. Not bad for a first day. Hope the weather holds like this as Im getting a bit sunburnt!