Start point: Rosthwaite (NY 258 149)
Rosthwaite – Dock Tarn – Great Crag (371) – Grange Fell (Brund Fell) (372) – King’s How (373) – Bowder Stone – Grange – Castle Crag – Rosthwaite
Distance: 9.3 miles Total Ascent: 990 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 20 minutes
Weather: A lovely summer’s day, 21°C.
Today’s walk takes place in ‘the loveliest square mile in Lakeland’ according to Wainwright, in Borrowdale up to Grange Fell and across the valley to Castle Crag (incidentally the lowest Wainwright and the only one less than 1000′). It certainly was lovely today as the sun shone and it was very warm with the merest breeze; a real English summer’s day.
Grange Fell route map.
Borrowdale from the path between Rosthwaite and Watendlath.
Watendlath and Watendlath Tarn, High Seat behind.
Great Gable, left, out of the clouds now with High Crag to the right from Great Crag.
Grange Fell from Great Crag.
Angus atop Brund Fell.
Looking across Borrowdale to Castle Crag - the lower prominence with trees on in the foreground. Behind are Dale Head and High Spy.
The Skiddaw fells and Derwent Water from King's How.
The Bowder Stone.
King's How from Castle Crag across Borrowdale.
Rosthwaite and the Jaws of Borrowdale from Castle Crag.
Okay, here's the colour version of the Derwent Water photo...