A damp and cloudy day on the Scafells today.
From Wasdale Head we climbed across the lower slopes of Lingmell and onto the Brown Tongue path, the crossing of Lingmell Beck was much easier than on Sunday morning and we climbed the Brooown Tonge path in good time continuing onto Lingmell Col and then up into the cloud on the summit of Scafell Pike.
We didn't stop too long on the summit today as the rain was starting to fall and the wind was strong so we descended to Mickledore and stopped for our sandwiches in the shelter of some rocks below Scafell Crag.
We could see banks of cloud moving in from the north west as we ate our sandwiches and hoped that these would at least hold off until we were on top of Scafell.
We descended on the Eskdale side of the col to meet the Fox's Tarn path climbing alongside the stream and re-entering the cloud. As we climbed the steep loose path above Fox's Tarn the rain began but we pressed on to climb to the summit of Scafell. There was nothing to see from the summit so after just a short break we turned round and descended the Green How path, taking a peek through the mist to have a look at the top of the Lord's Rake path before continuing to descend over the grass, slippery when it got steeper lower down, and descended to Brackenclose and back to the Wasdale Head Inn.
