With all the main online forecasts being filled with big yellow suns and MWIS predicting a 90% chance of clear summits it was time to make a return to the Coniston Fells.
I hadn't really decided upon a route or which fells I was going to walk, as a last minute I ignored the Bursting Stone Quarry route up the old man & decided to head up to Goat's Water for Dow Crag. Taking what AW refers to as the South Rake was also a last minute decision.
Carrying on to Great Carrs & Grey Friar from Swirl How was also an impulse that unfortunately required a re-ascent of Swirl How. Wetherlam was also strangely quiet but at least I didn't have to fight my way through walkers eating sandwiches to reach the summit cairn.
Early morning over Coniston...
