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17/11/2006 - Gray Crag.

I started out from Hartsop. It was wet (I mean lashing it down) and blustery on the climb up. It was also cold with low clouds on the tops. The views were generally poor and the summit largely uninteresting because of this. A typical day in the Lake District! Why does anyone do this? I hung around the summit cairn for a while hoping that the shifting clouds would lift a little but to no avail. High Street and all the other tops around remained hidden and so I decided to retrace my footsteps and descended by the way I'd come, back down towards the Filter House. Obviously I had picked the wrong day for this excursion but, as I might have anticipated, the weather brightened up considerably as I drove home and there was even a little sunshine. At least it was another Wainwright ticked off.