11th April 2007

Another beautiful day so the fell-runner and Mr Blogwalker joined me in deciding to head over to Patterdale and do a couple of the eastern fells. We started with a calf-stretching climb up Arnison Crags (1424 ft), which was painful, sweaty but very quick. The views were lovely but I was only allowed to lie down for 30 seconds.

We then followed a wall up onto Birks (2040) which was another tough climb, but very enjoyable; despite the fact that it was a great mountain we saw nobody else on the top at all. The reason for this was because they had all by-passed it for St Sunday Crag (2756 ft), which was another great mountain with fantastic views onto Striding Edge. We watched as 2 Mountain Rescue helicopters did something at the base of Hellvellyn, but we couldn't really work out what it was.

There was then talk about going onto Fairfield but we decided to head down to the White Lion Inn instead for a drink and then home for the cricket.

New fells: Arnison Crag, Birks, St Sunday Crag.