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Walna Scar Car Park - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Dow Crag - Walna Scar Road
Damson and I set off early from Dalton as weather report looked bleak for the afternoon ... and we all know that weather reports are excellent.
Had sight of our first rainbow before we got out of the car and walked up into every weather imaginable as we climbed up through the old quarry up the Old Man. Wind and drizzle to begin with but Damson didn't seem phased so we pushed on.
On nearing top of Old Man it turned to fog and then snow with the wind picking up a bit.
We pushed on across the top for Brim Fell with visibility down to a few yards and the snow turning to hail. As Damsons ears were being bombarded and flapping furiously in the wind we quickly turned and headed for Dow Crag.
Back to heavy rain and hail and strong winds on ascent of Dow Crag and plenty of hot air as the weather predictors got a blast from a very disgruntled me.
- Old Man from Dow Crag with a windblown and very cold Damson
This was very quickly to change on reaching top of Dow Crag though as the clouds lifted and first views of surrounding fells poked through.
On descent down the ridges towards Brown How, the sun broke through and by the time we had reached the Walna Scar Road the entire fells were bathed in glorious light and looked quite inviting. My advise for those venturing into the lakes is to ignore any weather report as it has its very own system. All in all though, we had an adventure and knocked a few ounces off the waistband ... which we put back on in Broughton at a pub on the way home.