HAPPY NEW YEAR! As the bells tolled to ring in 1st January 2019, I thought back on all my adventures in the Lake District, not just over 2018, but back to when I started my fell-walking journey on that fateful September day back in 2015. I set a resolution that this year, 2019, would be the year I complete the 214 Wainwright Lake-land Fells. A Rocky Start Saturday 5th January 2019 It had been an unusually mild start to the new year. Twelve months previous, I had been on a couple of fantastic snowy winter walks around both the Langdale & Glenridding areas. January 2019 however had yet to see any of the 'white stuff' fall on the hills. Instead, it was mainly damp & cloudy. But I was getting itchy feet. It had been about six weeks since I was last up in Cumbria, climbing fells whilst away celebrating my Fathers birthday. The hills they were a-calling. I pulled into the National Trust car park at the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel at just after 8AM. It was dry, no rain w