I was beginning to doubt it was very wintery round, having been up on Leg 3 today. But then I took the direct line up from Rosset to bowfell... The dogs and I were climbing on iced grass towards the top and I was needing to kick steps in the thankfully hard snow. Ice axe and some crampons would have been more helpful than two mutts and fell shoes - far too 'interesting', I'm not sure how the dogs made some of the sections I was too busy concentrating on myself, other sections they were shoved up - too committing to retrace our steps. Which was did folks take? Because very sensibly there were no footprints on the line I took (straight up from the wee cairn) - I was glad to see there were lots of fell running footsteps on the rest of the lines. Good effort all round.