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Thursday 10th February 2005
Start point: Dryhowe Bridge (NY
531 017)
Dryhowe
Bridge, Bannisdale -
Whiteside Pike
(292) (OF)
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Todd Fell
(293) (OF)
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Capplebarrow
(294) (OF)
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Ancrow Brow
(295) -
Long Crag on Bannisdale Fell
(296) (OF)
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White How (Bannisdale)
(297) (OF)
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Borrowdale Head
(298) -
Lamb Pasture
(299) (OF)
- Dryhowe Bridge, Bannisdale
Route Map
Weather: Fine with sunny spells.
Today's walk is a round of Bannisdale, a
remote and virtually uninhabited (and unvisited) valley to the north
east of Kendal. The walk basically follows Wainwright's The Bannisdale
Horseshoe chapter in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland', page
260, this being the longest round in the book. Ancrow Brow and
Borrowdale Head are tagged 'un-named' by Wainwright and confusingly
Birkett's Ancrow Brow is different to the one marked on the O.S map.This
walk was harder than it appears on the map due to the nature of the
grassy hills which are boggy and tussocky and make hard going.
Elevation profile of the route.
Key: WP=Whiteside Pike, TF=Todd
Fell, C=Capplebarrow, AB1=Ancrow Brow (Birkett), AB2=Ancrow
Brow (O.S), LC=Long Crag, WH=White Howe, BH=Borrowdale
Head, LP=Lamb Pasture
3D image of the walk route.
Sleddale Forest and Brunt Knott from the summit of
Whiteside Pike.
Long Sleddale from Todd Fell. See below for an
annotated version of this photo.
White Howe from Capplebarrow.
Long Sleddale from Birkett's Ancrow Brow summit.
The head of Longsleddale from an un-named summit.
Bannisdale from Long Crag.
Quarry workings on Capplebarrow.
Looking south-east to the Howgills from White Howe.
White Howe from Borrowdale Head.
Bannisdale from Lamb Pasture.
Lamb Pasture from Dryhowe Bridge.
Dryhowe Bridge.
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