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Wednesday 10th June 2009
Start point: Tilberthwaite car
park (NY
306 010)
Tilberthwaite - Steel Edge -
Wetherlam - Wetherlam Edge -
Birk Fell Man on Birk Fell -
Tilberthwaite Gill - Tilberthwaite
Distance: 4.2 miles
Total Ascent: 648 metres
Time Taken: 2 hours 15 minutes
Weather: Generally dull with the odd
bright spell. 15oC.
Route Map
It was lovely and still on the top of
Wetherlam this morning and really peaceful and quite warm. The distant
views were generally hazy once more but Steel Edge is a great way to
climb this fell with an equally good route of descent via Wetherlam
Edge.
High Tilberthwaite.
Casper has a look into the disused quarries.
Wetherlam from Yewdale Beck.
Casper checks the route along Steel Edge. Was that a
gulp I heard?
Steel Edge.
On the climb.
Looking back down Steel Edge across Blake Rigg towards
Fairfield...somewhere through the haze!
Coniston Water from Above Beck Fells.
The Old Man of Coniston and Brim Fell with Low Water
below.
The tourist path to The Old Man through he quarry
workings.
Great How Crags and Swirl How from an un-named tarn on
the Wetherlam ridge. The stillness of the tarn shows how breathless it
was up here today and the peace and quiet was deafening!
First view of the Scafells to the left, walking the
ridge to the summit up on the right.
The Old Man and Brim Fell from another tarn along the
ridge.
The summit of Wetherlam with Crinkle Crags, Bowfell,
Pike o' Blisco and the Langdale Pikes (and Casper) in view.
Are you happy Casper?
Prison Band and Swirl How across Black Sails.
The Scafells beyond Little Stand.
Greenburn and Little Langdale Tarn from the top of
Wetherlam.
A clear view to Cold Pike, Scafell Pike, Crinkle Crags
and Bowfell with Red Tarn lying in the hollow below Cold Pike.
Bowfell.
Descending Wetherlam Edge.
Looking back to Wetherlam, Wetherlam Edge to the
right.
These two walkers give Wetherlam Edge some scale.
The view from Birk Fell Man.
Wetherlam Edge from Birk Fell Man.
Steel Edge from the descent into Tilberthwaite.
Wetherlam from Tilberthwaite.
Tilberthwaite Gill.
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