19th August 2007

Having been a bit over-keen with the running the week before, I was suffering badly with enormous blisters. Having administered extensive first aid to them I felt ready to give the feet a trial walk; therefore, the fellrunner and I decided to do a quick walk up Hart Side (2481 ft) which would also mean that the Eastern Fells book would be completed.

We parked near Aira Force and headed up a very muddy path which made for some fun squelching and sliding: the path had clearly suffered after the days of heavy rain. After some excellent map reading we found the higher path which took us through a copse and onto the open fell. Unfortunately, the cloud came down and the fell runner did some outstanding navigating to get us onto the right summit.

Having reached the top, we decided that it was too cold to hang around so we made a quick descent and were back down in no time at all. The blisters had survived very well despite the fact that we both had wet feet.

New Fell: Hart Side