Today was forecast to be the best day of our mini break, so today was the day we would try to reach Goatfell Summit. We got up a bit later and had a more relaxed morning, before driving a brief way to park at the start of the walk.

The weather forecast had remained favourable so we set off optimistically to reach the top.

The first thing to note was that it was very windy. Due to this we didn’t make it all the way to the top.

The second thing to note was that on our way back down it started hailing pretty much sideways and we got soaked – so we were glad we didn’t go all the way to the top!

We are now both pretty pooped!