Lord's Seat and Broom Fell

Well what a day!!  I don't think you could ask for better winter conditions.  It was -7 driving through Lorton heading to the Spout Force car park. Great to see some red squirrels in the trees on the way there too.

It was great to see the sun coming over the fells as I walked along past Darling How.

Sun coming up over Broom Fell

Sun coming up over Broom Fell

I then went through Aiken Plantation and up through the trees, which looked spectacular covered in snow.  I got a good showering of snow down my neck as I walked under to branches, one disadvantage of being tall, but it helped out later!

Path though the tress on the way to Lords Seat

The final push to the top of the Lords Seat was entertaining, with some very deep drifts to walk through.  Here being tall was helpful, as I was close to being waist deep at times!!

Lords Seat summit with Solway and Robin Rigg off-shore wind farm in the distance

Not a bad view!!

Barf and Skiddaw from Lords Seat

From Lords Seat I put on the crampons and headed over to Broom Fell.

Heading over to Broom Fell

Te views were just amazing.  I also noticed that the north end of Bassenthwaite Lake was frozen - it was cold!

Stunning view across to Grisedale Pike

The views from the summit of Broom Fell were just as good

Me at the cairn on Broom Fell

Broom Fell cairn

I won't apologise for the number of photos in this post.  The views were just so good!  From the top of Broom Fell I retraced my steps back over Lords Seat and back to the car.  This was a cracking day out.  Sadly you don't get too many days like this, so I was so pleased to be able to get out today.

So that is another of couple off the list.  But it was the sort of day that is was just great to be out.  Anything else was just a bonus.