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Tuesday 26th July 2005
Start point: Hodge Close (NY
315 016)
Holme Fell from Hodge Close
Distance: 1.8 miles
Total Ascent: 203 metres
Time Taken: 1 hour 30 minutes
Weather: Overcast, very still. 17oC.
Route Map
It was quite grey and overcast again this
morning but very still which made it feel quite warm. We had a walk to
Holme Fell from Hodge Close, it was a lovely walk on a day like today -
very relaxing with the heather in full bloom. As Wainwright said '...the
glorious jungle of juniper and birch, heather and bracken make this one
of the most attractive of Lakeland's fells'.
Hodge Close, a disused quarry.
Climbers on the smooth quarry
wall...they must be mad!
Ivy Crag and Holme Fell reflected in
one of the disused reservoirs.
The reedy end of the reservoir.
The Langdale Pikes and High Raise from
Holme Fell summit. Lingmoor Fell is in the foreground.
Holme Fell summit.
Wetherlam from Holme Fell. Pike O'
Blisco is the fell in the distance on the far right of the photo.
Coniston Water from the southern end of
Holme Fell.
The heather is in full bloom.
More reflections in another disused reservoir.
On the way home (after ice-cream, of
course!) we stopped off to give Angus a dunk in Coniston Water.
Coniston Water.
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