Jason Jones and I have had a plan in place for some months. A plan that involved waiting for a 'good weather window' coupled with a weekend when we were both available. This combination finally arrived early in June so we loaded the car up with climbing and walking gear (and a few beers to drink in the club hut) and set off for Snowdonia with our sunglasses firmly on!

I'm getting ahead of myself though. Let me tell you a little more about the plan.

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It's late June and I'm peed off not having done a walk or got to the top of anything since March. Generally feeling unfit I decide to visit the Northern Pennines instead of Scotland as it's not so far for a failure. Driving up with an early start I'm at Penrith before nine, and end up on the road to Great Dun Fell just north of Appleby. It's a 9.50am start and the first top of Great Dun Fell (848m) is the radar station, like a huge round laced up white football this is the place to be if you ... Read full article