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Great Mell Fell

Height: 537 metres / 1762 feet Grid reference: NY 39682 25363 Category: The Eastern Fells

Blencathra from the summit of Great Mell Fell (plus Connie aged 4)

Blencathra from the summit of Great Mell Fell (plus Connie aged 4)

Blencathra from Great Mell Fell

Blencathra from Great Mell Fell

Great Mell & Little Mell Fells

Walked on 08/03/2012

Start point: Brownrigg Farm (NY 407 247)

Great Mell Fell from Brownrigg Farm

Distance: 2 miles     Total Ascent: 275 metres   Time Taken: 45 minutes     Start Time: 11:35

Weather: Dull (on many levels!). 8C

What can I say? Not my favourites as already documented…but I was out.

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Great Mell Fell route map.

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I'm looking through a hole in the sky.

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The tree.

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Little Mell Fell.

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Matterdale.

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The race to the top.

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Great Mell Fell.

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Do you think anyone will notice we're holding paws?

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Sky.

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The Dodds.

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The leaning Scots Pines of Great Mell Fell. I am standing straight and I have not been on the Cumbrian Legendary Ales (yet - but think I need some to liven things up a bit).

 

Start point: The Hause (NY 423 235)

Little Mell Fell from The Hause

Distance: 0.7 miles     Total Ascent: 120 metres     Time Taken: 20 minutes     Start Time: 12:30

Better views from this one but I drove round to it rather than walking.

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Raining on the steep climb from The Hause.

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Looking across to the High Street ridge across Ullswater.

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Brooding sky from higher up.

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Little Mell Fell.

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Place Fell.

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Hallin Fell and beyond.

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A view across to Sandwick and it seems to be brightening.

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Ullswater.

Great Mell Fell

Walked on 10/04/2008

Start point: Brownrigg Farm  (NY 407 247)

Great Mell Fell from Brownrigg Farm

Distance: 2 miles     Total Ascent: 275 metres    Time Taken: 45 minutes

Weather: Heavy showers. 8oC.

It is 3 years almost to the day that I was last on top of Great Mell Fell and I thought of that walk as I climbed. It was memorable as Connie was with me that day and some of the things we got up to made me smile; the weather turned out to be remarkably similar too. I ended up at Great Mell Fell almost by accident today as it was not my intended walk – that was over in Mardale – but the rain over there was like stair rods bouncing higher than the car. This upturned pudding basin stood out clearly from the greyness of most of the rest of the Lake District so that was good enough for me. I have to admit that this is far from my favourite and Great Mell and Little Mell Fells would certainly be in my bottom 10. Walking grassy and boggy slopes does not really do it for me; I much prefer some Lakeland rock underfoot but that was not to be today.

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Great Mell Fell

Walked on 07/04/2005

Start point: Brownrigg Farm  (NY 407 247)

Great Mell Fell (320) from Brownrigg Farm

Distance: 2 miles     Total Ascent: 250 metres     Time Taken: 2 hours

Weather: A mixed bag, sunny with a fierce hailstorm at the end. The temperature was 8oC when we set off, 4oC when we got back to the car dropping to 2oC and then back up to 11oC on the way home!

The sun started shining by the time we reached Ullswater at lunchtime. We stopped off near Glencoyne Bridge to see Wordsworth’s daffodils before ascending Great Mell Fell, that great pudding basin, in the sunshine. We had good views from the top with plenty of snow visible on the higher fells. On the way down we could see a band of hailstones coming from the east which caught us just before we got to the car. Great Mell Fell and all views were completely obliterated when the storm reached us.

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Great Mell Fell route map.

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On the way past Ullswater, we stopped off near Glencoyne Bridge to admire Wordsworth's daffodils.

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An extra treat for Connie - a lamb less than an hour old.

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Blencathra.

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Blencathra from the summit of Great Mell Fell.

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The Vale of Keswick.

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The south westerly view from Great Mell Fell.

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The High Street ridge from Great Mell Fell.

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Little Mell Fell.

3 Short walks

Walked on 18/03/2004

Walk 1 – Cow Bridge – Dovedale – Hart Crag – Hartsop Above How (193) – Cow Bridge

Cloud coming in on the tops with a cold wind.

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Cow Bridge on 3rd February...

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compared with the start of today's walk.

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Brock Crags across Brothers Water.

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Dovedale.

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Dove Falls, Dovedale.

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Hart Crag summit.

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Hartsop Above How summit.

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Brothers Water from Hartsop Above How.

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Hartsop Dodd.

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Angletarn Pikes.

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Wordsworth's daffodils near Glencoyne Bridge.

 

Walk 2 – Great Mell Fell (194) from Brownrigg Farm

Weather worsening now, turning to rain with a lot of cloud.

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Accessing Great Mell Fell.

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Great Mell Fell summit, Little Mell Fell behind.

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Little Mell Fell.

 

Walk 3 – Little Mell Fell (195) from The Hause

Weather even worse now with gale force winds.

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Little Mell Fell summit.

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