Grasmere to Patterdale (17.04.2009)

A nice spring's day which started off sunny from Grasmere, with the view to ascending over Great Rigg, Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag on my way to Patterdale. Unfortunately this didn't quite work out so well because it got so windy after getting out onto Great Rigg that I decided not to go further and headed back down toward Grasmere. After getting back down to the road, I re-planned my day and decided to head up towards Grisedale Tarn via Tongue Gill. Either way I had to get to the Patterdale youth hostel where I was booked to stay overnight, so this was my alternative and more low level route. Quite fortunately, even though it had clouded over a bit by the time I reached the tarn, the wind had died down quite massively since the morning, and I ended up continuing back up and over St. Sunday Crag as originally planned. Good views out over Ullswater and towards Striding Edge and Helvellyn. Bit of a short plod along the A592 to the youth hostel after touching down at the road, but it was worth it. Met a friendly lady named Andrea that evening at the youth hostel; she's had the same experience in the morning and made the choice to do a different route because the wind had been so ferocious, so at least it wasn't just me being a bit feeble!