It's still snowing!

Well last weekend's recce was fun ... a good practice at navigating anyway. We changed the plan of doing leg 4 first thing as the weather forecast looked against us for the early morning, especially with navigating some less familiar territory, So we parked at Honister and resolved to do two loops with Honister in the middle and thus an option to cut the whole thing short if things turned bad. Luckily the first loop was good, so we did both. So first was a route cross country to Windy Gap, then the end of leg 4 over Green Gable, Brandreth and Grey Knotts. We had 100m visibility for the first part and snow cover everywhere above 500m, so map, compass and intuition were our only friends. Never totally confident, we nevertheless hit the route bang on, making the route over the last part of the leg sweeter. A quick bite at the car, then we headed up the relentless haul of Dale Head for a look at the 3 hills of leg 5. Here the running was better than the other side of the road and we made decent progress to Hindscarth and Robinson, before heading back, missing the dog leg to Hindscarth this time. So a changed plan turned out very well after all; just as well when you've driven over 250 miles for the privilege!