We set off early and tried to ignore the persistent rain and howling winds and were chuffed when we actually made a successful arrival at the top of Wrynose pass. All we had to do was scoot up the front - no problem.
We pulled up and immediately put on every item of clothing that we had with us and laughed hysterically at the noise that the weather was making. Dragging ourselves out of the car, we realised that it was probably going to be tougher than we had expected. Slowly we made our way along the path to Pike O'Blisco before turning left on to the less distictive path up to Cold Pike. That was when it began to hail. It lashed at our faces causing certain members of the party to mumble about completing these things in July. However, we perservered and, with the help of the GPS, found our way on to the top of Cold Pike (2259 ft).
The summit was completely covered in mist and was incredibly cold, so we decided to head straight back down after a quick photo. This we did quite quickly. After about 10 minutes, however, the aged parent said 'I don't think that tarn should be there' and we realised that we had headed east instead of south and were going the wrong way. We headed back and tried to start again. This proved to be quite tricky; despite using the compass we soon found ourselves on the edge of Wrynose Breast and looking down a cliff, oops.
The good news was that we could at least see the car, it was just a bit further away then we had hoped. However, with very little grumbling, we followed the contours around the side of the fell and soon made it back to the car. We were cold, saturated and wind burnt but also happy that we had completed the walk.
We then headed back to Ambleside to meet up with the Fell runner who had been taking part in the Wansfell Fell race and with our mum. We decided that what we all needed was a massive lunch in the Mill Inn at Ings so we had one. Very nice it was too.
New fell: Cold Pike
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