Lakes Summit Snow Report

[Baggins]

anyone know what its like round ennerdale ? Wanna do a recce.its a 2 and half hour drive and dont wade though big snow drifts

any snow up there yet? Meant to be reccying Ennerdale this weekend.

Been away in Wales and haven't checked out on the tops but going by Leafs post I wouldn't think Ennerdale is any different.

It looks patchy on the High Stile ridge but the drifts will be really deep.

[Delroy Wilson]

Snow use avoiding the white stuff.

[emmilou]

Lots of snow on Skiddaw, Great Calva and Blencathra. Really hard going because, although the surface was fairly firm, it wasn't enough to bear my/our weight so we were sinking in up to our knees for much of the way.

The worst bits were descending off Skiddaw towards Great Calva - snow was simply too deep and soft to be able to run down. Climbing Great Calva wasn't good either - the heather was showing through the snow but didn't make it any easier to climb - either we sank into the deep snow or into the deep heather!

However, crossing the Caldew was OK - our feet were so cold by then that the water didn't make much difference!

Snow all the way up to the top of Blencathra, but then, strangely, parts of the path up from Foule Crag and along the summit plateau were clear of snow. In other parts there were deep drifts.

Very poor visibility and all the snow caused us to abandon plans to descend Halls Fell Ridge and continue southwards, so we ran back to Keswick instead. No snow below the Blencathra visitors centre.

We followed the studmarks of two other runners though, who apparently did go down Halls Fell Ridge. We met Denise & Dale (Moorlander) who'd come up that way too - with microspikes on.

Thanks for that, made the better decision getting the climbing elsewhere I guess but it's not the same hope it clears up and sharpish!!

[andygib1982]

ran ennerdale today plenty of bloody snow.not to bad the first half but lots more second half

[sol]

This is Scafell Pike summit trig point on Saturday, plenty of snow up there.
Makes you wonder how they got on with just one boot??

[ZootHornRollo]

Ran ennerdale route yesterday - the snow in patches made it harder work, especially the Haystacks to Scoat Fell stretch, but it was intermittent and not deep.

It had thawed over the weekend - well, it was a lot worse on the Grisedale Pike-Hobcarton-Whiteside ridge when I ran over to Buttermere on Friday. That was a great day in the end, cleared up a treat and all of a sudden was standing atop Hopegill Head all alone in a foot of snow and the sun beating down

It was lashing down as I left Keswick this morning, so unless it was falling as snow on higher ground it might all have been washed away by now.

[Chris K]

Yes it was lashing down - the bogs are back - wet, wet ,wet describes Mondays conditions quite well.

[Baggins]

It was lashing down as I left Keswick this morning, so unless it was falling as snow on higher ground it might all have been washed away by now.

It stopped late afternoon and tops cleared, no fresh snow and a lot of the snow from last week is going

[Mark G]

Was on Blencathra this morning - some large patches of mostly soft snow still left in places, only really a problem if you prefer unorthodox routes, had to kick a few steps to get out of the top of one of the cols but otherwise pretty much OK.

[emmilou]

Was on Blencathra this morning - some large patches of mostly soft snow still left in places, only really a problem if you prefer unorthodox routes, had to kick a few steps to get out of the top of one of the cols but otherwise pretty much OK.

Is it similar over the Dodds?