June 8

Skadaw. Although these mountains are modest in height,  they are still interesting to hike and beautiful. After looking at the local maps and getting some help at the i centre, we picked Skadaw for today hike. There were a number of ways to do it and we picked a steep route up and gentle route down. That turned out to be a good decision because the steep route had lots of loose rocks which would have made for slow going downward. We felt pretty good about making it to the top in 3 hours until 3 runners joined us there in about 5 minutes. The day was glorious with sun and warm weather making for excellent views. We saw what might have been Carlisle and Bowness on Hadrian's Wall path. After getting into town we looked into the feasibility of hiking Helvelyn tomorrow. We missed it on the Coast to Coast path. It and Skidaw are 2 of the 3 highest fells in the area.