We set off with an aged parent to Mungrisdale where we parked up and dutifully put a pound in the honesty box. It was then a very straightforward climb up the side of Bowscale Fell and right onto the summit (2306 ft). The weather was fab and, although it wasn't the fastest ascent in the world, we made it up to the top in good time.
It was then just a case of following a wide green path over to Bannerdale Crags. Or was it? About half way across one member of the team began to realise that the blister plasters on her feet weren't doing a very good job and so decided that at the top of Bannerdale Crags she would change the plasters. No problem. She realised the difficulty of her task when she remembered that she had left them on the bathroom shelf back at the guest house. By the time that we had reached the summit (2230 ft) it was becoming clear that there was no chance of her going on to do the bigger and further away fells. Much debate followed and we decided that we would all stick together and head back down over Souther Fell.
A cowboy-Roy style descent down the back of Bannerdale Crags became much more fun when it was discovered that it could be done using the old-age style of sitting down and lifting up the feet. What would have been a very painful and slow descent quickly became an enormous amount of fun. Therefore we reached the River Glenderamackin in no time at all and made a fairly quick ascent onto Souther Fell (1680 ft).
It was very cold on the top so we headed down towards Mungrisdale and had our lunch on the brow of the fell. It was then a quick ascent down into Mungrisdale which was only made longer by the fact that we had to take a seemingly unnecessary detour around a field.
We arrived back at the car, slightly disappointed.
Total distance: Approximately 5 miles and 2000 feet of ascent.
New Fells: Souther Fell
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The aged parent would like to put on record that, for once, it was not he who wanted to quit the exertions. He wanted to include Mungrisdale Common (too far said the blog-writer with bad feet) and he would have gone on to Blencarthra (too far and too high said the blog-writer with utterly manky feet). Not convinced that such defeetism (pun, not just bad spelling) is likely to inspire confidence in success on the mathematically misjudged final day but the best of luck, anyway.
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