Height: 373 metres / 1224 feet Grid reference: NY 41061 19039
Ullswater from Low Birk fell
Low Birk Fell
Place Fell
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 route map.
Gowbarrow Park across Ullswater from the Patterdale - Sandwick path.
Looking back to Hallin Fell.
Crossing Scalehow Beck.
Place Fell from the ascent of Birk Fell. The Matterhorn shape to the right is The Knight.
Ullswater from Low Birk fell.
Angus on Bleaberry Knott, the highest point of Birk Fell.
Windswept on The Knight...
...and camouflaged on the summit of Place Fell.
The tarn below the summit of Place Fell.
The descent to High Dodd.
An atmospheric look across Boredale and Beda Fell to the Far Eastern fells from High Dodd.
Looking along Boredale to Hallin Fell. Bonscale Pike is in the centre distance above Howtown and Steel Knotts is to the right.
High Dodd from Sleet Fell.