Saturday 14.02.2015

Thought we`d make do with a couple of short sprints round the woods, shrouded in cloud as we`ve been all day, but the second trip turned into a magical mystery tour as the mist worked its enchantment, drawing us onwards and upwards on paths that could have led anywhere.......




Without the usual landmarks it would theoretically be possible to wander round in circles but we`d been this way before and knew if we simply kept going upwards on the (ever-narrowing) path we`d end up near the top of Mither Tap and so it proved. Emerging out of the heather onto the main path with the cloud much thicker and swirling round us we eschewed the actual summit and scuttled off the hill and into the woods,with more ghostly trees

and the gloomy light endowing the mosses and lichens and ferns with an almost fluorescent glow.



Bad weather? No such thing really.