Chocolate Bun!

Monday, 5th December

Chocolate Bun was affectionately named by myself one day when I saw it with just a sprinkling of snow on it's dark top which made it look exactly like a giant chocolate brownie. And it has been Chocolate Bun ever since. But we have never made an attempt an ascent to visit it's dark, rich summit - until today.
It is very difficult getting on top of Bun because of a wall which circumvates it and does not have, that we could see, a convenient gap near to the path we had chosen to take (from Seargent's Crag). We did find a sort of illegal one (it looked as if some walker had ripped at the fence and pulled down some of the wall in frustration, and I could see their point really. After having walked through sodden moss-topped grass for hours I just wanted to get up and off again. Marcus said the top reminded him of chocolate; the long dark grass rippling across dark brown mud. The view was not quite as majestic as we had expected and certainly not as magnificent as the one from Seargeant's Crag, which quite took our breath away. But, we have climbed one of our favourite peaks so I can now look up at it with different eyes, knowing it a little better than I did this morning.