Home Travel Diving Running		Sunday 30 June 2002 We are amazing lucky with the weather. As it pours over the rest of the country Langdale remained unusually dry. Well not totally - on the day we walked to Grasmere via Stickle Tarn (left) it poured. Charlotte is full of beans on top of Bowfell, note my favourite crag, Scafell East Buttress in the background with Scafell Pike on the right. Tom and Tommy discover that the portable TV has a signal on the top of Bowfell, much to Katie's amusement. The walk up here via Rossett Gill and Angle Tarn is just about maximum range for Charlie. It did make a decent day out and not too crowded. Thursday and the sun really comes out. So do the crowds - we make our way up the Old Man of Coniston with about five million other people. Very different from Langdale, you pass a number of quarries and overall it is much more rocky here than Langdale - reminiscent of Snowdonia. Coming down we take a quieter route finding a perfectly placed ice cream van at the bottom. (left) Tommy takes a break on the way up the Old Man. (below) the Langdale valley coming down The Band from Bowfell.