Blea Rigg & Silver How - Walking the Wainwright’s

Hello, welcome back. I've just arrived in Grasmere. I've still got the back injury so light pipe, just doing a day walk and there's actually a wainwright on this route that I haven't done. It's one of those, I mentioned it in my last video where I've walked right past them but I didn't know they were wainwrights so this is one I'm hoping to bag and speaking of bagging I've got someone else helping me today and this is a proper bagger who's bagged all the Munro's. So yes we're in Grasmere heading up towards Easedale Tarn. We're both still a bit injured so we can't, every knee can't do any sleeper sense so it's quite gradual this but the views are lovely around here and it's a beautiful day so hopefully we'll get up to Easedale Tarn and then take it from there really. There's one, there's one wainwright that I'd like to do but I've done all the others around here and because I didn't know it was a wainwright it's just sat there normally you'd tick it off as you went past but I've been past it and not bagged it so Easedale Tarn that's beautiful and look at that this is a real Indian summer I think we're having now it's gorgeous really is still with you a bit of a summer aren't we. So can you see the path now heading up the side of the waterborne then we turn around that way to Easedale Tarn just looking up to Helm Crag there and I think it's what's that one there after Gibson Knot is it I have done all these but there's just one up here that I haven't done so hopefully we'll get to that just depends how how we feel with the injuries we'll keep going. Just a bit further up now and that cloud base has started to lower and it's got a bit dull see there there as well hopefully I mean the forecast is for it to brighten so hopefully it will do. So we've just arrived at Easedale Tarn and it's beautiful really is but that so much for clearing skies the cloud seems to be actually getting lower but it's lovely that yeah and what we're planning I think I think it's that one up there blea rig I think it's called it's about 1,700 feet so I'm not sure there's a path on the map that goes up there somewhere so we'll have a look at that planning to go in there yeah someone's planning to go in just measure the temp it's 10 degrees 10.5 oh it's much warmer than 10 it drops off quite quickly goes deep and then it shallows around the rock and you can see she was walking but uh it's too cold for me so now as I said I think it's that somewhere up there anyway I'm not sure which one it actually is but I think it's that but uh it's lovely it really is so we've just moved on a bit further and I thought it was that one there I thought it was that but now I'm thinking it's that and I'm also thinking if it is that I might have done it god I don't know what I'm doing with these wet nights I'm sure I've come down there but I probably haven't actually stood on the summit and all that stuff that you've got to do when you do the way and I don't do that anyway because I'm not a bagger but um yeah so we'll be turning off this path very soon I think it's there actually and heading up that way so we've got a bit of height now and uh I'll tell you what this uh this bleak rig from here look at that it looks pretty full on from here I don't know where the actual ascent route is I guess it's round the back but oh that could be interesting that especially with all these wet conditions you're gonna have to be careful to get to the top of that again I'm not sure whether I mean it might be them pinnacles there I don't think so I mean that one's anyway we'll uh we'll move on a bit further and we'll find out we haven't really researched that we just made no that's right we just thought oh there's one and tick that box so we're heading up at the back of the crags that I showed you that was bleak crags which uh is around there heading up the back now towards bleak rig up here somewhere quite steep this nice into the mist now it's uh 1700 feet something like that up here is there a bit of a cairn or something that looks like the highest point I guess we'll have to have a look oh something there is that it might be that or that not sure anyway I'll go and visit that one and then I've been to them both so that's bleak rig bagged 153 but because we've got a professional bagger on this trip there she wants to bag another one so we're now looping back round not heading back the same way there's lee rig up there and it's actually clearing that's going to be a bummer if it clears when we start heading down blue skies up there as well so I hope it clears look at that lovely so this is a more gentle route back it's sort of the ground's easier it's not that steep ascent that we came up back there and it just gradually drops down towards Silver Howe. Silver Howe's uh another wainwright but it's one I've done but uh Ebony has now started a bit of bagging on the wainwright just something to do while she can't uh do any summit camps so that's nice for her as well and uh she wants to do that one so we'll loop around there it's not too far probably about a mile further on than this but that sun's trying to break through now hopefully we're going to get some views and that uh cloud just lifts keep going so just dropped out the clag now and you can see down to Grasmere down there and late Windermere so Silver Howe is just there and I was just saying to whoever you need this is tiring terrain it's not that far it's only there but it's quite boggy grassy and it's just up and down all the way to there so it is it is pretty tiring this anyway we'll plod on so just drop down a bit further now looking down into Langdale that's lovely that I can hear some music going on maybe there's a there's a campsite maybe there's a festival or something going on down there there's a big teepee and a marquee think maybe there's a wedding or something like that I don't know that's lovely though that that cloud base it's probably about I don't know 1700 feet something like that anyway we're going that way so we just made it to the summit of Silver Howe and it's lovely I've been up here a couple of times before just looking down to Rydal and Grasmere down there and then that's back to where we came from that cloud just still sat just under 2000 feet I reckon on the mountains but it's been a lovely day really has tell you what someone put some effort into that that's good that is so look at that not screech you beautiful views so we're descending back to the car now that's been a really good walk um you know well we've got the injuries at least we're still getting out and still doing a bit of exercise so I'll leave you with beautiful views of Grasmere and Rydal water and look forward to seeing you in the next one see ya