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Smelly Trip to Lakes April 2013 by Wai Cheung
Smelly group and friends from
left to right - Dave Allison, Rob Bailey, Andrew Watson (Aberdeen), Ian
Hodgson, Trevor Symonds, Dave Thompson, Tom Hodgson, Joy O’Flanagan (www.mountainbalance.com),
Richard Tait (SOC), Vincent Connolly and Wai Cheung (Behind the lens). Click on Image to go to Photos Day 1: - Saturday was a bright sunny, but windy day. The group met at Loweswater and began the 5 hour day with a scramble up the summit of Mellbreak at 509m. The leading pack decided to skip the easy track and ascend the more interesting west face. From Mellbreak we headed south crossing Black Beck, passing Scale Force as we headed up towards Red Pike at 755m. Along the Chapel Crags we climbed to our highest summit of the day to High Stile at 806m. From here we retraced our steps back to Red Pike and descended west along Little Dodd over to Starling Dodd at 633m. Next on the bagging list was Great Borne at 616m followed by a sharp descent towards the North. For some, Floutern Cop at 451m was bagged before the final climb to Hen Comb at 509m. Heading down, Northeast, we crossed Mosedale Beck and regrouped to run back down the track to the cars parked at Loweswater. Needless to say that we sampled the local brew at the nearby drinking establishment of Kirkstile Inn (Ian has stayed here and can highly recommend it).
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