Halfway Hause*

This walk was Mountainmanjunior's halfway point in his relentless pursuit of the Wainwrights.

5:45am 18th October 2009, I woke up tired and felt tired all day, don't know why but I did.

Met Ross at his parents house and parked up my car this time as he was bursting to try out his new Toyota Aygo (wouldn't have been great being a Yugo Aygo - wherever You go, I go! - OK it's not that funny).

We soon arrived at Glenridding despite the small engine of the car, proving that you don't really need big engines to motor along. The heart stopping point arrived very early in the morning even before we left the car park - £6.50 to park! This is disgraceful! 

After that blood rush we soon walked up to the first Wainwright which was Glenridding Dodd and wondered where the actual top was as it had 4 or 5 cairns all around. The actual top is the summit as the GPS track proved. From here there was a broad ridge walk up to a sometimes pathless Sheffield Pike and this was Mountainmanjunior's halfway point - 107th Wainwright. 

Up to this point the weather had been cool and slight breezey. We descended towards Lucy's Tongue (sniggers) and up "The Chimney" (more sniggering) on Stang. The higher we climbed towards Raise the worse the weather became. By amazingly great navigation (probably luck) we were only 20 metres off the summit of Raise in thick cloud. 

The summit of Raise was cold, wet and breezy, so it was no place to sit around. Ross set a course for Whiteside, which we found easily and then descended rapidly to get out of the wind and drizzle.

Although more sheltered, the weather was always present to some degree. We soon arrived at the mine workings and YHA and walked back along Greenside Road to the main car park.

It was a fairly short route at 5 hours, but that's mainly because Mountainmanjuniour's getting fitter, rather then a short route. Route was 8.66miles long and half of that was unpathed!

* -> A Hause is a Lake District term for a mountain Pass.