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After my visit to the doctors on Thursday, last week, it looks like I've damaged some muscles on the right side of my neck. The doctor has given me some medication which seems to be working, just makes me very tired! We had arranged to go over to Loweswater, over on the western side of the Lakes this week, to meet up with Roger and Ann Hiley to go for a walk with them. The weather forecast wasn't brilliant with strong winds and heavy showers been the order of the day, just like our last visit over there when we did Hen Comb. Over coffee we decided that going too high wouldn't be a good idea, as we've not done that many fells over that side of the Lakes there were plenty of choices. We ended up agreeing on tackling Gavel Fell, at 1720 feet it wasn't a monster, but we thought in the forecasted conditions it would be a good challenge. It was hard to decide on whether to wear waterproofs or not at the start of the walk, the sky looked like it could rain at any time. Well within about 10 mins of setting off the first of the heavy showers hit us, so out came the waterproofs! The route we picked was along the Black Crag ridge, which was completely new to us. It wasn't that demanding, a couple of steep sections but they weren't too bad. The hardest bit was walking into the wind along the ridge, by the time we reached the summit of Gavel Fell it was hard just to stand up. Roger picked a delightful spot for lunch 8-) just over the fence from the summit cairn in a rather boggy hole. It was going to be the best shelter we could find up there so we got down as low as we could to enjoy a flask of coffee and egg mayo buns. Tim off course had his usual fruit to chomp on, but he kept eyeing up the egg buns and drooling everywhere! Our return route was down across White Oak Moss, very wet and boggy, then back over the slopes of Hen Comb to cross Mosedale Beck before heading back to the village. It was a great walk and we must thank Roger and Ann again for the company on the walk. I mustn't forget Tim's doggie friends Harry and Bethan, he just loves going out for a run on the fells with them. He was shattered and snored all the home on the back of the car!