"1/1/2023 A great walk on New Years Day. Awful weather! Rain, sleet, hail, blowing a gale. Only saw 6 people all day and no views! Weather conditions probably added an hour to the time." — johnandsue4fun • Jan 1, 2023

"Afternoon walk in cloud and wind but no rain. 3.5 hours round trip. Descent from Swirl How via Prison Band ridge, thence down Coppermines valley to Coniston. Sue bringing up the rear." — johnandsue4fun • Dec 31, 2021

"5/12/2021. Wetherlam to The Old Man via Swirl How and the ridge southwards to Coniston Old Man. Lovely December day with snow and a cold wind sufficient to keep most tourists away. Susan accompanied me as usual." — johnandsue4fun • Dec 5, 2021

"After 2 days of storms, it was good to get out on the hills again. We started from Coniston village and walked up the path to the coppermines valley. By the first set of old cottages, we cut up NE on an old miners track to the long steady ridge, that took us over Red Gill head to the summit of Wetherlam. After the 2 days of heavy rain, the ground in places was waterlogged and all streams were torrents. After a stop in the summit, where the views of the higher Lake District peaks to the N were good, we set off W over the lower summit of Black Sails then Swirl Hause, a pass, and up the steep scramble of Preston Band, to the summit of Swirl How, the highest peak of the day. Here we noticed that bad weather was brewing on surrounding peaks, with rainbows forming between heavy showers. We then made a detour from the route to go out onto 2 subsidiary summits, Great Carrs and Little Carrs. In the col by Great Carrs is the wreckage of a plane that crashed on the peak in bad weather in 1944, we stopped to read the memorial to the airmen. Then the weather took a dramatic turn for the worse, so we hurried on to our final peak for the day, Great How. From here we dropped down very steeply to L..." — davidlong • Sep 26, 2012

"Staying at Monk Coniston (HF Guest House). From Coniston with HF party. After ascending Wetherlam and Swirl How we went along the top to Brim Fell and Coniston Old Man. We descended the South Ridge (easy grass slopes) to Walna Scar track, and back to Coniston." — peter43 • Dec 31, 1961

"Leeds University Outdoor Activities Course at Dale Head, Duddon. Leading and teaching sixth-formers with Chris McAllistair. We gave our group the following map references: 262994. 273006, 273178, 258965,227960, 224966 (not in order) with instructions to take us to each one of these points. Route taken was down valley on road, to top of hill (Hinning House Close) and over the SW ridge of Grey Friar N of track from Troutal to Seathwaite Tarn. Then along the valley to the old copper mine. Direct route to Swirl How. Continued down Swirl Band and on to Coniston Old Man in mist, high wind and rain." — peter43 • Mar 28, 1961