Sunday 14th Dec, Lingmoor and Yoke

Not an obvious choice of hills to join together but there was good reasons.

The day started at Elterwater and a gentle walk up onto Lingmoor through the old mine workings. The valley was in cloud but as we gained height we gradually got above the clouds and enjoyed a some sunshine. Despite the good weather few people had seemed to venture out this morning onto this popular hill.

After reaching the summit we dropped down to Lingmoor Tarn before traversing across the hill to Side Pike via The Squeeze. A narrow gap between a spike and the crag that you fit through to reach the summit.

After dropping back into the valley we followed the route of the Cumbria way back to Elterwater and the end of our first walk.

Having arrived back home and just sat down to enjoy a coffee the Mountain Rescue Pagers went off. Some walkers had become lost and seperated from their group in the cloud on Kentmere horseshoe. We were tasked with walking the ridge towards Thornthwaite Beacon from Garburn to try and locate them whilst another team searched from the Kentmere Valley towards Nan Bield Pass. We had just reached the top of Yoke when the missing party were located in the valley. The remainder of their group turned up in Patterdale and got a taxi back to their cars in Kentmere. It was a nice evening for a walk as we watched the last of the sun setting on the way back to the Landrovers