Wednesday was our "day off". The itinary stated a walk along Langstrath, which meant 11.5 miles and a climb to Angle Tarn, which was as high as Monday's walk to Catbells.

The weather had taken a turn for the worse, with low cloud and the threat of imminent rain, but we still set off in good spirit and walked to Seathwaite and Stockley Bridge. From here we followed Grains Gill and Ruddy Gill past Sprinkling Tarn, which we could unfortunately not see in the mist. By now it had also started raining, and the views were non-existent in all directions.

The path was clear enough though, and we turned left below Great End walking between Allen Crags and Esk Hause to Angle Tarn. Here it was just about possible to see a bit of Esk Pike behind, as we sat down to enjoy our lunch.

By this time, we had learnt another valuable lesson from walking with an experienced leader: until this holiday, we had been concerned the time taken to reach our first summit, and had based our decisions to not go further on this time, but it was now becoming clear that once the initial climb was over, although there might be other climbing to do to reach individual summits, the progress made along the ridge and on the descent was so much better and meant that a lot more ground could be covered than we had been calculating. A very obvious fact with hindsight, but to novice fell-walkers like ourselves, the penny had not dropped until now.