Like many people I woke up this morning to find it had snowed in the night. Now I like walking in snow but I have never been very keen on walking over high fells within 12 hours of fresh snow. I prefer to wait until it consolidates and walk over them the following day. So I opted today to walk High Rigg which, at 1200 ft is just 600 ft higher than my garden. Despite an earlyish start I was not the first to set foot on the fell and by the time I reached the summit it seemed that half the population of Keswick had chosen to do the smae walk as me! Graham and Sarah must have done a roaring trade at Low Bridgend tea garden which opened this weekend after being closed during the winter. There was about six inches of snow on the top of the ridge compared to just an inch at Fornside. I think it started snowing at Fornside at about 3am. Prior to that we had rain which I think fell as snow on the fells from about midnight. A word about my photos. I wore insulated gloves. This gave me warm hands but meant that I was a bit ham fisted with the camera controls! So in the middle of the sequence you will find that the photos are in monochrome and there are none at the summit because I managed to put the camera on a delay setting!! I mananged to realise what I had done by the time we reached St Johns Church.

said fornside01 2008.03.23 at 08:37:09 PDT