The very first trip of KCLWMS was held over the weekend of the 18th of June in Patterdale in the Lake District. Passing briefly over the not so brief journey we all eventually arrived in our camping barn. Camping barn is an inadequate way to describe the beautiful little cottage, and we will definitely be using it again! The weather was fairly awful when we arrived so everyone went to bed with fingers crossed that the weekend would improve. And we were very lucky; the weather on the Saturday was perfect for an ascent of Helvellyn. Well perhaps not perfect, by the time we got to the top you couldn’t actually see the top but that’s part of the fun. We had a great scramble up Striding Edge and