"Very windy day, 80kph+ above 600m due to the back end of Storm Kathleen. Decided not to waste the day and do a small hill instead. Ended up being a worth while nice surprise." — adventure-stricken • Apr 7, 2024

"Today was my birthday and I wanted to climb another Wainwright. We had been in the Lakes for a cheeky visit and as we had had to abandon a climb on this pre covid due to crazy flooding in the LD we decided that this was t he one to tick off. After parking up in the NT Car Park we set off along the river and made our way up the Lingy Bank and headed to the stile that took us to the slate mountain. Everyone says this is an easy hill but not if you have 2 kids with you! its steeper than it looks and I can imagine very slippy in wet weather. Luckily as we had arrived early we didn't meet too many people on our ascent and I got to enjoy a pleasant cup of Yorkshire Tea while the kids ran around traumatising me. After gathering the info needed for a earthcache placed here we headed back down whereupon the boys decided to announce to everyone that we passed that it was my birthday! " — charliegill • Apr 15, 2022

"Monday 3rd December 2018. An ascent of Castle Crag 290m/75m, Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. 7.2km, with 270m of ascent. 2 hours 25mins. It has been some time since my last hiking photo-blog, as family matters have prevented me from finding the time to do justice to the beauty of the British hills. My father died in November, and there has been much to do, not least the mourning at his passing. There have been a few short hill-walks, but in poor grey weather that did not excite me to the putting of fingers to the keys. The walks reflected the sombreness of my mood. My wife and I had booked a short break in a hotel in Northern Lakeland many months ago. The timing proved apposite, between the death and funeral, giving us time to refresh and process our confused thoughts and feelings. The weather forecast for the first day, before we booked into the hotel, was conducive to a walk in the first days of winter. We headed to beautiful Borrowdale, south of Derwent Water, for a hike over the diminutive, but impressive, Castle Crag. A.W. Wainwright devoted a whole chapter in Book 6 of his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells to this small fell, and it is the on..." — marktrengove2 • Dec 3, 2018