Route: Leaving the car in the Broadgate Meadow car park (pay on exit / the web; £6.55 after lunch, coffee and cakes) and walking north on Far Easedale Road to pick up the standard Helm Crag ascent, in the process of being repitched. Rain and wind increasing with height, turning back in driving hail, 200m short of the summit ridge. Returning the same way but taking the poet's walk permissive path through the Lancrigg Hotel gardens.
Conditions: initially cloudy and light rain, increasing and increasingly windy later.
Pub: Tweedies Bar, Grasmere for lunch and Brecon Brewing Red Beacon, Cumbrian Legendary Ales Pale Ale and Coniston Brewery Special Oatmeal Stout.
