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John Paterson

Sunday, 10 February 2008
The Monte Rosa ski area is an area of steep-sided, wooded valleys strewn with boulders large and small. Because of this the ski area, whilst huge, is only medium sized in terms of the number of runs - although some of them are several miles long with descents of up to 5,000 feet. The valleys are branch valleys off the huge Aosta Valley which stretches for many miles below the Swiss border.

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Sunday on St Sunday Crag

Last Sunday Roger and Ann and Jo and I and our five dogs met at Patterdale for a walk over St Sunday Crag. As the forecast was for improving weather during the afternoon, we set off up Grisedale rather than heading directly for St Sunday Crag. The odd spot of drizzle soon cleared up as we climbed the long trail from green fields to the more rocky head of the valley.

Whitbarrow

A poor forecast today but from my front door the weather looked better in the Southern Lakes - a good excuse to drive down the Lyth Valley and walk a circuit of Whitbarrow from Mill Side.

FEATURED UNFREQUENTED WAINWRIGHT ROUTES

UWR 18: Brim Fell from Low water

With rain forecast for this evening (which has duly arrived) I headed south over Dunmail Raise early this morning for a route I have had my eye on for a while. I parked in the carpark at the Walna Scar fell gate and headed off up the tourist route up Coniston Old Man.

UWR 16 & 17: Seathwaite Fell & Great End via the edge of Custs Gully

Today Ann, Roger, Jo and myself did a walk from Seathwaite which contained not one but two Unfrequented Wainwright Routes and we enjoyed it immensely in mostly hot and humid conditions.

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