Height: 500 metres / 1640 feet Grid reference: NY 30774 07595
Silver How
Start point: Grasmere (NY 338 078)
Grasmere – Easedale Tarn – Blea Rigg (174) – Castle How (175) – Swinescar Pike (176) – Lang How (177) – Silver How (178) – Grasmere
Weather: Rain with low lying cloud.
Today’s walk was a damp traverse of the Langdale Edge and Silver How; the cloud was so low that there was no chance of a decent view today from the tops except for a brief clearing of the cloud towards the end of the walk.
Sourmilk Gill in full spate.
The power...
...and the glory...
Easedale Tarn.
The Matterhorn shape of Belles Knott above Easedale Tarn.
The cloud lifts briefly to give a glimpse of Lingmoor Fell across Great Langdale from Lang How.
A wet Silver How from Lang How.
One of the many grassy knolls reflected in a tarn beneath Lang How.
Looking across Brigstone Moss from the summit of Silver How.
Helm Crag from the descent back into Grasmere.
Grasmere below Silver How.