I had a splendid day out with Chris Butterfield today on Haystacks, where we explored and visited some very special Wainwright-related film and photograph locations, one of which included Wainwright’s very own “perched boulder” on a rocky outcrop a short distance south of Blackbeck Tarn.
It was also an opportunity to visit and show Chris a cairn I built on a prominent top in 2017. I built this small cairn to celebrate “life”, as at that time our daughter was in an incubator in hospital, having been born severely premature at 25 weeks. It was such a joy to see that “Emily’s cairn” hasn’t been disturbed after all this time, and it still commands a lovely view over the peaceful Innominate Tarn, where Wainwright’s ashes were scattered in 1991.
Emily has now climbed 31 Wainwright fells, and if all goes to plan, we hope she can finish her round on Haystacks, where she can also visit her very special cairn for the first time.
Richard
