Tuesday 18th September 2007

Start point: Troutbeck (NY 413 028)

Troutbeck - Garburn Road - Sour Howes - Capple Howe (515) - Moor Head - Sallows - Garburn Road - Troutbeck

Distance: 5.2 miles     Total Ascent: 470 metres     Time Taken: 2 hours

Weather: Clear and cool. 12oC.

Route Map

After a dull start it eventually turned sunny and bright but it was so cold this morning. A step change I thought and Autumn is most definitely upon us now. This is quite a gentle walk and I managed to pick up a Birkett straggler - one that I had somehow managed to miss previously. I don't know what has happened to the cairn on Sour Howes, somehow it has completely disappeared without trace.

Troutbeck Park from the Garburn Road, The Tongue centre.

Getting higher up the Garburn Road.

Looking across to Scafell, through the Three Tarns gap, and Bowfell.

The Coniston fells from the climb to Applethwaite Common.

Windermere from the ridge.

Thornthwaite Crag, Froswick, Ill Bell and Yoke.

Red Screes and Caudale Moor across Troutbeck Park.

The sky is clearing now as the sun gets higher giving clear views.

A close-up of Bowness and Windermere.

Distant Black Combe over Windermere.

Crinkle Crags, Scafell and Bowfell. Pike o' Blisco can just be seen to the left of the first Crinkle.

Casper on the summit of Sour Howes. The cairn that used to be here has disappeared so Casper will have to do instead!

The former cairn on Sour Howes in January 2004. Gone but not forgotten.

The view to the north from Sour Howes.

Sallows from the top of Capple Howe. I managed to miss this new (for me) Birkett last time round.

Sunshine and blue skies heading for Sallows.

The western fells over Wansfell Pike.

Red Screes with the Kirkstone Pass road below.

The Kentmere Horseshoe fells from Sallows.

Yoke over the Garburn Pass.

Casper on the summit mound of Sallows, Kentmere Pike beyond.

Scafell Pike now visible in the distant centre, Great End over the Langdale Pikes to the right.

The Coniston range.

Troutbeck Tongue.

Descending to the Garburn Road.

Black Combe and the Coniston fells from the Garburn Road.

Wansfell.

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