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Friday 3rd September 2004

Start point: Roadside parking on The Droomer Estate, Windermere (SD 419 980)

Windermere - School Knott (OF) - Grandsire (OF) - a nameless summit 806' - Windermere

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Weather: Dull and overcast with the odd sunny spell.

Today's walk follows Wainwright's School Knott chapter in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland', page 30.

Spitfire at 10 o' clock - from the ascent of School Knott.

The Langdale skyline, from School Knott summit.

Grandsire and Schoolknott Tarn.

Red Screes and Caudale Moor with Kirkstone pass in the centre from the summit of Grandsire.

The Coniston Fells from a nameless summit 806'.

Old Droomer, the original farmhouse which gives its name to the large estate above Windermere.

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