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Posted On: March 30th 2026, 05:56 am
To the people who call Catbells an “easy Wainwright”… bahahaha such a nuanced statement.
Shortly after leaving Keswick yesterday Rebecca (my fellow guide) & I looked at each other sideways with a knowing “holy crap it’s windy”. Wind that strong at valley level equals a VERY windy summit.
We split into 2 groups, one taking a scenic lakeside route & the other heading up with the understanding that it would be minging & we may have to turn around & bail back the way we came if it wasn’t safe.
We were getting buffeted about on the way up, everyone was briefed on how to make it less likely to get blown over & to the summit we went.
There was no way to walk the last couple of meters the wind was so strong so a little crawling may have been done. We then retreated back along the path as there was no safe way of continuing the planned route.
The rest of the day was accompanied with slightly wild grins on our faces of an adventure just the right side of exciting.
Catbells is only 451m tall but is a scramble in sections & still need to be treated like the other Lakes mountains. Our group were all sure footed, fit & keen otherwise I wouldn’t have offered it as an option. I hope everyone else had such a fun (& soggy) day yesterday, I can’t imagine how windy it would have been on the larger summits 🤍
Shortly after leaving Keswick yesterday Rebecca (my fellow guide) & I looked at each other sideways with a knowing “holy crap it’s windy”. Wind that strong at valley level equals a VERY windy summit.
We split into 2 groups, one taking a scenic lakeside route & the other heading up with the understanding that it would be minging & we may have to turn around & bail back the way we came if it wasn’t safe.
We were getting buffeted about on the way up, everyone was briefed on how to make it less likely to get blown over & to the summit we went.
There was no way to walk the last couple of meters the wind was so strong so a little crawling may have been done. We then retreated back along the path as there was no safe way of continuing the planned route.
The rest of the day was accompanied with slightly wild grins on our faces of an adventure just the right side of exciting.
Catbells is only 451m tall but is a scramble in sections & still need to be treated like the other Lakes mountains. Our group were all sure footed, fit & keen otherwise I wouldn’t have offered it as an option. I hope everyone else had such a fun (& soggy) day yesterday, I can’t imagine how windy it would have been on the larger summits 🤍
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