Another great day in the snow today, today climbing Scafell Pike from Seathwaite.
We set off at 10am from Seatoller, the road down to Seathwaite was pretty slippery so we started a little further down the road than usual, walking the mile down the road to Seathwaite and following the track past Stockley Bridge and climbing to Sty Head and onto the Corridor Route, there was about an inch of fresh snow underfoot on top of yesterdays snow and we were breaking new ground on the Corridor Route once we had passed Skew Gill.
From Lingmell Col there was good firm snow and we put our crampons on and climbed to the summit of Scafell Pike in bright sunshine.
The views from the summit were amazing and we sat behind the summit cairn out of the wind to eat our sandwiches.
After lunch we crossed Broad Crag Col and climbed over Broad Crag and Ill Crag descending through Calf Cove to Esk Hause, descending on good snow to the path below Great End and onto the Grains Gill path.
We came down on some quite tricky ice as we descended the Grains Gill path, this was easy enough to cross with crampons, but it took a little while to do, meaning that we desccended to Seathwaite in the dark.
A wonderful day all round.
