"Was feeling very, very fatigued after a full week hiking and climbing in mostly serious windy and wet weather. Also made worse by the 2hr drive in from the North due to closed roads. I did debate about my choice of route and final mountain of the week. I'm glad I ticked off my final English 3000er, but by the time I had started descending, I was feeling pretty miserable. Also due to the amount of persistent rain over the last few months, descending Scafell via Foxes Tarn and the waterfall gully was both fun, ridiculous and at times down right stupid. To be safe, there was no getting around things with the amount of water flow and green slimy rocks. Had to shimmy down on my backside on some of the sections to prevent a nasty injury, meaning a lovely flow of water down the back of my trousers. All in all a very sketchy descent which is more suited to summer than the back end of winter! Also, without the hiking poles - I'd have probably slipped and smashed my head on some of the sections. By the time I was below Cam Spout Crag, I was well and truly beaten up and tired. From there it seemed to go on forever getting back to the car through many many bogs and lots of streams and..." — adventure-stricken • Apr 11, 2024

"Today completed my Winter Wainwrights Challenge - 214 hills to be completed within the winter months, December 21st to March 20. Managed it with 20 days spare despite the many interruptions by builders, family, work, weather, etc." — johnandsue4fun • Feb 27, 2023

"Thursday 10th May 2018. An ascent of Great How 522m/51m, Slight Side 762m/14m, Sca Fell 963.9m/132.2m, and Symonds Knott 959.3m/20.9m, from Eskdale, Lake District, Cumbria. 21.0km, with 1250m of ascent. 10hrs 0min. After an overnight stay in DB's house, BC drove us in his electric car over the Wrynose and Hardknott Passes. The car made short work of the hairpin bends, indeed took them more efficiently than a vehicle with petrol or diesel engine. We parked at the Woolpack Inn in lower Eskdale, principally as it offered an electric charging station. We walked back east along the road for about a kilometre to the very Scottish-sounding Wha House Farm, from where a right-of-way heads north up the flank of the fells from a small car park. The day was a moody one of cloud and a little sunshine, with a strong north-westerly blowing. It was a marked contrast to the weather but three days earlier, when I was high in the Welsh hills, comfortable in just a T-shirt and shorts. The weather forecasts concurred that conditions would improve by lunchtime, so we were hopeful of views from Sca Fell, England's second highest mountain. We made steady progress north on the rather boggy pa..." — marktrengove2 • May 10, 2018

"Not your usual route. Dropped down from Scafell Pike to Mickledor col. Then instead of head right to Lord's Rake or taking the path down into the valley to join the route to Foxes Tarn. We followed the path across Mickledor to the edge of the cliff and then turned left. We dropped a little way into the valley before scrambling along a small ledge around the East Buttress of Scafell more or less keeping our height but ascending slightly. Eventually we arrived at a rock fall then decided to drop down a little bit to join the usual route up to Foxes Tarn. Definitely not a tourist route... more of a rock climbers route to reach climbing routes. Challenging but fun." — NorthernWayfarer • Jun 4, 2017

"Set off from Wasdale Head on a mixed weather day, went up Lingmell Gill to Lingmell Summit 2649ft. From there we ascended up to Mickledore, a rocky gap between Scafell and Scafell Pike. Here we decided to go up Lords Rake, a rock filled scree gulley that had been out of bounds for a year, because of a major rock fall that had blocked the 1st gulley and made it unstable. This had now stabilised to some extent. After Lords Rake, we scrambled up to the summit to see good views of the other peaks of the Scafell range and surrounding hills. From the summit we descended south to the summit of the lower outlying peak of Slight Side 2499ft and then turned west, past the remains of an old crashed plane to descend to Burnmoor Tarn, where we picked up a good track back to our start point at Wasdale Head." — davidlong • Jul 10, 2009

"Turned back around Mickledore due failing light in snowy, crystal clear, bitter winter conditions. Route: Langdale>Bowfell>Scafell Pike>Mickledore>Angle Tarn>Langdale. (Uni climbing club weekend)" — davidb • Nov 10, 1985

"Leading a party of boys from the King's School, Chester. After ascending Scafell Pike from Troutal. Down to Mickledore and roped up ascent of Lord's Rake under significant snow conditions. Descended from Scafell via Foxes Tarn and back to Troutal." — peter43 • Apr 13, 1962