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Tuesday 7th February 2006
Start point: Aira Force car
park (NY 398 206)
Aira Force car park - Aira Force - Hind Crag
- Bernard Pike -
Green Hill
(450) -
Gowbarrow Fell
(451) - High Force - Aira Force car park
Distance: 4 miles
Total Ascent: 614 metres
Time Taken: 1 hour 45 minutes
Weather: Starting off dull and
overcast but quickly turning wet and wild. 8oC.
Route Map
The weather has returned to dull and wet
this week and today's walk was a circuit of Gowbarrow Park taking in
Aira Force waterfall. The heavens opened when I was up on Green Hill,
backed by a strong wind so I was glad to get down to the relative
shelter of High Force. Ten minutes later and I think I would have missed
the views altogether.
The dramatic Aira Force.
...and looking down from the bridge
across it.
The head of Ullswater from Green Hill.
Glenridding Dodd, Birkhouse Moor and
Sheffield Pike.
The Ullswater Steamer passes Silver
Bay.
Birks and Saint Sunday Crag tower over
Keldas and Glenridding.
Place Fell across Ullswater.
Hallin Fell with Loadpot Hill in the
distance.
A leaden sky looking across Ullswater;
behind me the views had disappeared as 'weather' arrived.
It was wet and wild now on the summit
of Green Hill, looking towards Gowbarrow Fell.
The summit of Gowbarrow Fell with
Little Mell Fell beyond.
A 'moving' High Force...
...and a 'frozen' one.
High Force.
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