Start point: Keswick Landing Stages (NY 264 227)
Keswick Landing Stages – Hawes End – Skelgill Bank – Catbells – Hause Gate – Brandelhow Bay – Keswick Landing Stages
Distance: 2.5 miles Total Ascent: 450 metres Time Taken: 4 hours
Weather: Long sunny spells. 21°C.
Today we had a walk up to Cat Bells (the setting for Beatrix Potter’s ‘The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle’, Connie’s favourite – of course!), getting there and back using the Derwent Water launch from Keswick. It was a warm day and Connie did brilliantly completing this climb, her hardest yet I think and she absolutely loved it on the launch.
Catbells route map.
The Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy ridge from the launch on Derwent Water.
The Skiddaw massif from the climb up to Cat Bells.
The north-western fells and the Newlands Valley.
Skiddaw.
Cat Bells from Skelgill Bank.
Rowling End and Causey Pike, Crag Hill to the left with Grisedale Pike to the right.
Connie hangs on to her sandwich whilst Angus sees something more interesting on the summit of Cat Bells.
Looking across Hause Gate to Maiden Moor.
Bassenthwaite Lake from Cat Bells.
Angus.
Blencathra in cloud from Brandelhow Bay on Derwent Water.