I hadn’t meant to write a post today. But out of curiosity, I drove up the fell to have a mooch around Cowley Brook Plantation and see what Storm Eowyn had metered out.
So far this year, we have had floods, arctic snow and hurricane-force winds, and we are not at the end of January. What next, a plague of frogs or locusts in Biblical proportions? The world and its climate are evolving, and disasters are becoming more commonplace.
The day is colder than I had thought, and my hands stay firmly in my pockets. It’s only when I am further up in the old pine plantation that I notice more trees down from when I last visited, which I do often, probably from Eowyn’s blast. My phone comes out for a photo. 
And there is more further along. 
I wrote recently about whether the plantation would survive my lifetime. Things are looking bleaker, and it may not survive your lifetime.
The next storm, the Spanish Herminia, is on its way, and it’s time to get out of the creaking trees.
A brave sortie in this weather. Your account brought back my memory of going over High Street on Wainwright’s Way (19th October 2019.)
You were well prepared with gloves but I was not. Did you not have gloves with you on this trip?
https://conradwalks.blogspot.com/2019/10/wainwrights-way-troutbeck-to-patterdale.html
Enjoyed re-reading your High Street foray. Touche https://bowlandclimber.com/2019/10/25/wainwrights-way-9-troutbeck-to-patterdale/ where the gloves are mentioned.
Today I just popped out for a look, Ill prepared for the cold.
I’ve been out checking on trees too! A few down, but considering the hoo-haa in advance, we don’t seem to have had it too bad. Did have to rescue my bins and their contents from quite a distance down the road however.
When you put it like that, it has been quite a January hasn’t it 😂
So far…