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Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June 2008, a weekend in Northumberland made a change for me; walking with 40sWalkersNorth we managed to find the only island of good weather in the northern half of Britain. On Saturday we walked part of St Cuthberts Way from Wooler to Fenwick, it was a surprise to find a large cave named after St Cuthbert in the middle of the green rolling countryside. Light rain accompanied us on the final hour to Fenwick and it poured down overnight, but Sunday morning was bright and breezy. We walked across the fields and through a gauntlet of large concrete blocks, a wartime attempt to prevent amphibious landings, to the start of the Lindisfarne Causeway. We had planned to walk along the Pilgrims Path, marked by a line of high wooden posts, but it still looked quite wet; eventually we just went for it, mainly barefoot, but one well-prepared individual brought her wellies. After a quick walk across the island to the castle, and a short visit to a local pub we had a hurried walk back across the sand before the tide came back in. Look at the photos Saturday 14th June 2008, it was a bright and breezy morning when I arrived at Wasdale; I left my car at Overbeck Bridge and set off in teeshirt and shorts for the walk to Wasdale Head. I walked past the pub to join the path towards Black Sail Pass but didn't stay on it for very long; as I reached the gate at the foot of Kirk Fell and went through it and took the direct steep route upwards. The weather came in and after a short spell wearing waterproofs, I settled for a gloves and shorts day. I walked upto the summit and followed the fence down to Black Sail Pass, then onwards, over the top of Looking Stead, and after getting a short way up the ridge of Pillar I turned off on to the High Level Route. There is an excellent scramble up to the summit of Pillar, I carried on over Black Crag and up to Scoat Fell, cross country to Red Pike and then descended to Dore Head. The best way down from there is up and over Yewbarrow, straight down to where I had left the car. Look at the photos Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2008, a weekend I had been looking forward to for a long time saw me staying in the Glencoe Hostel with my fellow Linlithgow Ramblers; the warm sunny weather seemed to bring out the worst of the midges. On Saturday we drove up the lovely Glen Etive to Invercharnan in order to walk through the Glenetive Forest before climbing Beinn Fionnlaidh in very warm conditions. On Sunday we made the long anticipated steep climb from Glen Coe to the summit of Am Bodach, a sudden rugged drop to a ridge that led us to the summit of Meall Dearg and on to the Aonach Eagach. Generally it was the most interesting and rugged of ridge walks, occasionally it was so exhilarating that I didn't dare let go with either hand to reach for my camera in the places that would have made the best photographs; The Crazy Pinnacles are a place that I must visit again. The ridge ends at the summit of Stob Coire Leith; all you have to do then is climb up to the summit of Sgorr nam Fiannaidh before the steep 2000 feet of descent on eroded scree and grass that proved that my knee is fully healed. Read about it Saturday 24th May 2008, it was my first visit to Wasdale of the year, partly due to poor weather and partly because of my knee injury; it looked as though it was going to be a good day. I parked at Brackenclose and walked up the Brown Tongue route with the usual crowd of other walkers but an unusually clear view of Scafell, it almost always mists over before I get there. Lord's Rake was in its early season state with a lot of loose rocks in the lower reaches; the fallen boulder is still in place but it continues to be undermined. I walked up to the third top of the Rake before walking back down and clambering under the boulder to get on to the West Wall Traverse; watching the climbers on Scafell Crag as I walked up to Deep Gill and on to Scafell. I descended by Foxes Tarn Gully before climbing Scafell Pike by a roundabout route in order to visit Broadcrag Tarn before an intesting clamber over boulders to reach the big path to the summit. I descended to Lingmell col and walked to the summit of Lingmell to descend its ridge rather than walk down the hard reconsructed path to Brown Tongue. Read about it