Date: 25 Dec 2022 11:55am Taken at: Summit of Helvellyn It's important to have your hooves in snow on Christmas Day! Herdy found this patch of soft snow just below the summit
Date: 24 Dec 2022 11:30am Taken at: Helvellyn summit A sprinkling of thawing new snow on the east face of Helvellyn but generally the fells are now snow free
Date: 23 Dec 2022 11:20am Taken at: Exit to Swirral Edge Treacherous conditions here at the top of Swirral Edge; the snow was hard & icy & the rocks covered in verglas(thin ice)
Date: 22 Dec 2022 02:30pm Taken at: Helvellyn summit A few remnants of snow clinging on to the east face of Helvellyn
Date: 21 Dec 2022 11:10am Taken at: Summit of Helvellyn A desolate Trig point which I had to myself; this could have been due to the intermittent biting, stinging hail!
Date: 20 Dec 2022 12:05pm Taken at: Exit to Swirral Edge The only snow left on Swirral Edge was at its exit, mostly soft & easily avoidable. Whiteside & Raise in the background.
Date: 19 Dec 2022 03:00pm Taken at: Greenside Heavy rain and a turbo thaw stripped the hills of snow & ice.
Date: 17 Dec 2022 01:04pm Taken at: Helvellyn Summit Shelter An ice axe buried up to the hilt in a snowdrift.
Date: 16 Dec 2022 11:59am Taken at: High Stile summit Looking over the summit cairn towards Pillar beyond.