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Low Birk Fell

Height: 373 metres / 1224 feet Grid reference: NY 41061 19039

Ullswater from Low Birk fell

Ullswater from Low Birk fell

Place Fell

Walked on 18/10/2005

Start point: Sandwick (NY 423 196)

Sandwick – Low Birk Fell (425) – Bleaberry Knott on Birk Fell (426) – The Knight (427) – Place Fell (428) – High Dodd (429) – Sleet Fell (430) – Sandwick

Distance: 5.7 miles     Total Ascent: 818 metres     Time Taken: 2 hour 25 minutes

Weather: Sunny start, gradually clouding in. 12°C.

I travelled East again today to complete a circuit of the fells between Ullswater and Boredale, taking in Place Fell as the high point. There are fabulous views of Ullswater from here, made all the better today with the pleasant Autumn conditions.

Place Fell

Place Fell route map.

Place Fell - 18th October 001

Gowbarrow Park across Ullswater from the Patterdale - Sandwick path.

Place Fell - 18th October 002

Looking back to Hallin Fell.

Place Fell - 18th October 003

Crossing Scalehow Beck.

Place Fell - 18th October 007

Place Fell from the ascent of Birk Fell. The Matterhorn shape to the right is The Knight.

Place Fell - 18th October 010

Ullswater from Low Birk fell.

Place Fell - 18th October 018

Angus on Bleaberry Knott, the highest point of Birk Fell.

Place Fell - 18th October 034

Windswept on The Knight...

Place Fell - 18th October 037

...and camouflaged on the summit of Place Fell.

Place Fell - 18th October 043

The tarn below the summit of Place Fell.

Place Fell - 18th October 045

The descent to High Dodd.

Place Fell - 18th October 049

An atmospheric look across Boredale and Beda Fell to the Far Eastern fells from High Dodd.

Place Fell - 18th October 054

Looking along Boredale to Hallin Fell. Bonscale Pike is in the centre distance above Howtown and Steel Knotts is to the right.

Place Fell - 18th October 056

High Dodd from Sleet Fell.

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