Start point: Hodge Close (NY 315 016)
Holme Fell from Hodge Close
Distance: 1.8 miles Total Ascent: 203 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 30 minutes
Weather: Overcast, very still. 17°C.
It was quite grey and overcast again this morning but very still which made it feel quite warm. We had a walk to Holme Fell from Hodge Close, it was a lovely walk on a day like today – very relaxing with the heather in full bloom. As Wainwright said ‘…the glorious jungle of juniper and birch, heather and bracken make this one of the most attractive of Lakeland’s fells’.
Holme Fell route map.
Hodge Close, a disused quarry.
Climbers on the smooth quarry wall...they must be mad!
Ivy Crag and Holme Fell reflected in one of the disused reservoirs.
The reedy end of the reservoir.
The Langdale Pikes and High Raise from Holme Fell summit. Lingmoor Fell is in the foreground.
Holme Fell summit.
Wetherlam from Holme Fell. Pike O' Blisco is the fell in the distance on the far right of the photo.
Coniston Water from the southern end of Holme Fell.
The heather is in full bloom.
More reflections in another disused reservoir. On the way home (after ice-cream, of course!) we stopped off to give Angus a dunk in Coniston Water.
Coniston Water.
