Height: 322 metres / 1056 feet Grid reference: SD 31099 91118
Arnsbarrow Hill
Arnsbarrow Hill
Bethecar Moor
Start point: High Nibthwaite (SD 295 897)
High Nibthwaite – Brock Barrow (OF) – Low Light Haw (OF) – High Light Haw (OF) – Stang Hill – Arnsbarrow Hill – Top o’ Selside(OF)– High Nibthwaite
Distance: 4.1 miles Total Ascent: 347m metres Time Taken: 1 hours 30 minutes Start Time: 09:20
Weather: Sunny spells. A cool 9oC.
It may be May (!) but it doesn’t particularly feel like it, the shorts and tee shirt are still not in evidence yet. Dougal (and Casper) have gone for it though having lost their winter coats ready for the long hot summer ahead. It was just me and Dougal again today for a jaunt along the east side of Coniston Water up on Bethecar Moor, a fairly relaxed walk with some great views.
Caught in a shower heading for Brock Barrow.
Lo and behold! The sun is shining on the climb.
They made me do it.
Looking back down on the climb.
The Coniston fells from Brock Barrow.
A panoramic view of the Crake Valley and the foot of Coniston Water.
Very dapper Dougal!
The Old Man and Wetherlam beyond the second summit...
...and the view from it.
The rest of the tops in this walk can be spotted from Low Light Haw - directly ahead to High Light Haw, Stang and Arnsbarrow Hill to the right and Top o' Selside distant left.
Coniston Water, Beacon Fell and Caw from High Light Haw.
The route to Stang Hill.
Heading across Stang Moss.
Helvellyn to Fairfield to Red Screes to Ill Bell from Stang Hill.
Arnsbarrow Tarn, Top o' Selside beyond.
A panorama of Arnsbarrow Tarn.
A little bit of sunshine on Top o' Selside.
Looking in the opposite direction to distant Morecambe Bay and Black Comb.
A Coniston panorama on the way back to Low Nibthwaite.
Top o’ Selside
Start point: High Nibthwaite (SD 295 897)
High Nibthwaite – Brock Barrow – Low Light Haw (OF) – High Light Haw (OF) – Stang Hill –Arnsbarrow Hill – Top o’ Selside (OF)– High Nibthwaite
Distance: 5 miles Total Ascent: 474 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 50 minutes
Weather: Cold, cloud at valley level. 3oC.
It was cold and misty on the drive up to the east side of Coniston. Would it be cold enough at valley level to create a temperature inversion, where the cloud remains at a very low level and you can climb above it to clear skies? Well let’s see….
Ascending to a cold looking Brock Barrow through the mist.
Wow! The temperature inversion was there. This view shows the Coniston Fells from Brock Barrow, a thick layer of cloud covers Coniston Water.
Looking across to Beacon Fell.
Coniston Old Man and Wetherlam.
Panoramic view of Coniston Water.
Southwards to the Crake Valley.
Woodland and the Southern Outlying fells.
Soaking up the rays.
The valleys to the south east and the Kent Estuary are lying under a blanket of cloud too.
Dow Crag.
A frozen Arnsbarrow Tarn.
The Coniston fells from Top o' Selside.
Top o' Selside.
The clouds start to lift on the descent and Coniston Water is once again visible.
Coniston Water and the Coniston fells from the descent.
Top o’ Selside
Start point: High Nibthwaite (SD 295 897)
High Nibthwaite – Brock Barrow – Low Light Haw (OF) – High Light Haw (OF) – Stang Hill (37) – Arnsbarrow Hill (38) – Top o’ Selside (39) (OF)- High Nibthwaite
Weather: Bright at first turning to drizzle.
Brock Barrow. This is the Wainwright nameless summit 748' (P.93 'The Outlying Fells'). The route of ascent is the steep left diagonal groove.
Allan Tarn from Brock Barrow with Blawith Knott behind, right.
Dow Crag, Coniston Old Man, Swirl How and Wetherlam from Brock Barrow.
View from the second cairn.
Low Light Haw
High Light Haw
Stang Hill summit. Fairfield, Hart Crag, Dove Crag and Red Screes can be seen through the drizzle.
Looking towards the Howgills from Arnsbarrow Hill summit.
Arnsbarrow Tarn.
Summit cairn, Top o' Selside with the Coniston range behind.
Beacon Fell across Coniston Water.