After the excesses of Christmas a quick blast along the St Sunday Ridge was in order. Plenty of folk out on Pinnacle Ridge and along Grisedale but we made our own tracks along the ridge from Birks. With the change in wind direction and temperatures the snow was very variable from a hard crust to deep windslab to drifted new snow. Plenty of evidence of some small slides around on northerly aspects but when I dug a pit all seemed well bonded and consolodated with just one slightly softer layer about 6 inches down (N aspect, 800m). There was plenty of rime on the rocks and all the turf was well frozen.
After a heavy snow shower on the way down Grisedale the clouds lifted and we chased a full moon down Ullswater.
