Blaeberry Fell’s blue run
I’d seen there had been people skiing recently at an elevation of 600 metre on Blencathra (KesMail February 2010). What I hadn’t anticipated to find last week was a 300m long ‘blue run’ on a wide gully below Blaeberry Fell (See Photo opposite), about two miles beyond Keswick and at a height of only 370 m.
It wasn’t up to the snow conditions in Italy’s Sauze d’Oulx where we were recently with the Ski Club of Manchester, but with a pair of skis there would have been a good run down. This is one of the great things about winter walking – finding the unexpected in the unknown known.
Having the right kit is the key thing for taking to the hills in winter in safety – though I wouldn’t take skis every time I saw snow! I’ll get a list of my favourite equipment for safe winter walking in my next post. In the meantime the photos below give an impression of some of the visual delights that came from a late lunch to dusk walk with the snow and ice last week.
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