Scafell Sky Race
Report by Gary Bastow
Alex Fawcett, Joe Lofthouse and I ran the Scafell Sky Race from Old Dungeon Gill in Langdale. It’s a 40k race with 3500 meters of ascent. The day was typical lakes weather with driving rain and high winds. The route, over Harrison Stickle in the Landales, Green and Great Gable and the side of Scafell was a great challenge. There were 267 entries. The technical sections were extremely sheer and the rocks like ice with the wet – all of us coming to grief in amongst them at certain points.
Alex finished in 6h 19 48th
Joe in 6h 36m 67th
Gary Bastow in 6h 54m. 91s
There was a climb segment going up a two and a half mile hill onto Green Gable for a prize of which Alex got second.