Friday night, 11.30pm: Trying to pitch the tent. In the rain. An auspicious start! >

< How do these things work?

All set and ready to go. >

< I'm not sure which way we go from here!

Views from Grizedale Forest over to the Old Man of Coniston. >

< In the wet conditions, Anne unfortunately fell and damaged her bike. Luckily, she did more damage to her top than to herself!

Thanks to a couple of other passing teams, we managed to do some running repairs, and soon had her back on track! >

< Mary & Tim on the downhill stretch back to Coniston.

D.C. Woodwards 'mooning' to show how wet our backsides had got! >

< After a brief stop to change out of our wet clothes and have some lunch, we set out to climb the Old Man of Coniston.

Windswept and interesting! >

< As we got higher, the wind started to get much stronger.

Until, almost at the top, it became a real struggle to stay upright! >

< Finally, we made it: the summit of the Old Man of Coniston, 802m high.

On the way down it started to hail, which soon became driving rain. Battling the strong winds and soaking wet with the rain, we didn't stop to take any photos!

< Straight out onto Coniston Water for the canoeing. We didn't bother changing out of our wet clothes for this!