Napes Needle and Great Gable

Always so hard to park up at Seathwaite but we found a spot and set off..second trip out in my new boots….beginning to get used to them. We headed up to Styhead Tarn. The mountain rescue were there selling cake and tea!! We traversed round the climbers traverse and passed Kern Knott and Trophet Wall and got to Napes Needle. We scrambled up the pack and down the other side…Threading the needle! We carried on towards Sphinx Rock. It was quite cold and blustery and a bit showery but we carried on and went up Eagle’s Nest Gully and Arrowhead Ridge. Grade 2 *** From the top we traversed round and went up Pinnacle Ridge on Westmorland’s Crag. Grade 2 **. Excellent scrambles but a little greasy. It started raining as we got off the top of the scramble showery at first. On the top of Great Gable I put a a bid on a pair of rock boots…….using my new app. From Great gable we went to green gable and then the weather got very inclement! Strong winds and hail in our faces…we went a bit wrong but traversed round and came down passed Base brown and down the path at the side of Sour Milk Gill. We got back to the car soaking wet!! I won my rock boots but we had a long drive home with all the holiday traffic through going to Ambleside and Windermere. A brilliant day but wet!! Pleased with my boots.