Start point: Gummer’s How Car Park (SD 390 877)
Gummer’s How Car Park – Gummer’s How (OF) – Gummer’s How Car Park
Distance: 1.2 miles    Total Ascent: 150 metres    Time Taken: 1 hour
Weather: A very warm and welcome 18°C.
Wow, what a change in the weather today after what seems like an age of constant heavy rain. The sun was shining in an unseasonal return to summer – I almost dusted my shorts off for our walk to family favourite, Gummer’s How today!
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Gummer's How
Slow down, slow down! Connie and Angus take off to Gummer's How.
So this is what those trig. columns are for!
The best of friends.
Looking along Windermere, the early mist is still low on the lake at the top end.
The steamer on Windermere leaves Lakeside.
The descent from the summit.
The southern end of Windermere and the River Leven.
Autumn on Gummer's How.
Windermere from Lakeside, Gummer's How to the right.
The weir on the River Leven at Newby Bridge.
The River Leven in full flow at Backbarrow...
...and further downstream.