Thanks all for your nice comments
You weren't the only faller on Saturday, I slipped on the descent of Rossett Gill and ended up with feet one side of a snowy stream, and hands on the other. Unfortunately someone was coming up, and they seemed to think I looked quite funny.
I probably would have found it funny too! I hope you are alright, I am on the mend, except for feeling a bit achy.
(thanks goodness your tablet survived the day!)
I am amazed it is ok it did smack off the ground!
@ Dovegirl, thank you I am feeling better now
we sounded the retreat - sometimes it is the correct thing to do.
We were disappointed at the time but knew it was the only thing to do
Halls Fell Ridge looks breathtaking!
It does, we thought it was laughing at us
@ Ridge, I will remember last Saturday for a while!
I read an advert yesterday, for Altberg and the 'punch line' is " Look well to each step " - famous words of Edward Whymper.
Mr Wainwright always used to say "Watch where you are putting your feet".
I normally do, serves me right for using the tablet instead of the paper map, I find it easier using the map and wouldn't have had to fiddle with the tablet as much.
Good job on the woolly rescue. Being stuck in a river makes a change from having horns caught in a wire fence or stuck in a bog, several of those come to mind.
Yes, our other sheep rescues have involved fences
..is Beefy ok after eating his lunch with mucky sheep hands... not contracted any bizarre virus or anything
He ate with his sarnies with his hands sort of wrapped in cling film and his flapjack in foil. He crushed his crisps and poured them into his gob
Poor Squeaky, not designed for deep cold snow and poor you - hope the hip is ok now.
We are looked at winter mountaineering clothes for dogs. A bit pricey! My hip is on the mend, thanks
Sorry, I should be flogged for typing that! (Innominate Man told me to............)
You are both on the Should be Flogged list
the views across the Lakes capped in snow were superb.
We were jealous of the people we saw in Threlkeld who had came down off Blencathra
On the walk out to Scales we dropped down to a gully covered in ice and ended up setting an ice-axe belay with a sling for other hikers who didn't have spikes with them and getting a handful down safely.
Was that near Scaley Beck? The rocky descent and ascent there is problematic without ice. Good that you were there to help people without spikes
Nice one pleb (did I tell you to say that ? ..... wish I had )
You are on the Should be Flogged list anyway