Wednesday 26th November 2008

Start point: Blea Tarn Car Park (NY 296 043)

Blea Tarn - Bleatarn House - Lingmoor Fell - Lingmoor Tarn - Blea Tarn

Distance: 2.5 miles     Total Ascent: 300 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Constant drizzle. 8oC.

Route Map

It was wet and drizzly for a walk up to Lingmoor Fell this morning and the clouds were down in the valleys below. This is a surprisingly quick way to the top with the ascent being directly to the summit cairn. I decided to miss the normally easy to get to Side Pike as the weather was worsening. Instead I took a short cut and descended back to the road at the depression between Lingmoor Fell and Side Pike.

Blea Tarn and Side Pike, the Langdale Pikes obscured by clouds.

Bleatarn House - Wordsworth's Solitary - and Side Pike from the start of the climb of Lingmoor Fell.

The path to the top.

Ghostly Langdale Pikes over Side Pike.

The view from the gap in the wall.

Blake Rigg and Blea Tarn.

Bleatarn House with lots of low lying cloud and drizzle in Great Langdale beyond.

Looking south from Brown How, the summit of Lingmoor Fell.

Looking north there is the occasional fleeting glimpse of the Langdales through the increasingly heavy drizzle.

Casper on Lingmoor Fell.

A bit wet Casper?

Descending to Lingmoor Tarn.

Casper has a dip in there, as if he is not wet enough already!

Descending towards Side Pike.

Side Pike with the road far below.

Casper in the heavy drizzle. "I'm a celebrity...get me out of here".

On the descent towards Blea Tarn.

Plenty more rain clouds forming on the lower slopes of Pike o' Blisco.

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