A double black diamond day

Today's photos started the other way around, but I thought about our day and flipped them. 

When I was skiing really hard in the States for a few years there was a phrase that I learnt, a measure so to speak, that's always stayed with me. Under a sign bearing the infamous paired black diamonds (the hardest recognised grade of ski descent) a guide had written the words
"Any terrain, any conditions, any time"

FWG is getting closer and closer to achieving her next goal, and that means that (some) days are harder and harder. Not many folk want to wander out and play in this, but those that do get rewarded with moments like the extra. Then they head towards, not away from, the gloom.

High Tove in the cloud on a dark stormy night, is about as tough as the Lakes has to offer. Add in knee deep marsh, streams everywhere and nowhere and outcrops just big enough to not show on a (10m) contour and you've got all the ingredients for adventure.