Walking in England - Helm Crag, Tuesday 1999 August 17
August 17th 1999 Into our stride now: walk to a mountain, up one end, across the top (or two), and down the other end. Once again the views were stunning, and again the bad weather didn’t materialize, although it was worse than yesterday – no sun, but a few very short showers.
The ascent today was very gradual on slow, grassy paths. Eventually, however, every up is telling. I had to take more and more breaks
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