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 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 Levers water, taking great care as the heavy rain had made the rocks very slippy. We walked around the lake and had to wade the outflow, which was swollen with the recent heavy rains, then walk for over an hour back down to the village, drying our wet gear in the evening sun and breeze.