Start point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)
Kiln Bank Cross – Park Head Road – Long Mire – Caw (OF) – Park Head Road – Kiln Bank Cross
Distance: 3.5 miles Total Ascent: 300 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 30 minutes
Weather: Overcast. It was spotting with rain throughout the walk. 18ºC.
More poor weather today and the high fells were once more covered with cloud. I decided on a lower favourite, Caw; to the south and south-west, all seemed much brighter.
Caw ahead at the start of the Park Head Road.
Brock Barrow. The Park Head Road winds its way up to the right.
Looking along the Duddon Valley, Harter Fell to the left with Wallowbarrow Crag above Seathwaite in front of it.
Caw. The Wainwright route follows the Park Head Road and descends to the left before picking up an old miners track. The McMahon route (the better one in my opinion!) follows Long Mire to the right before a route 1 ascent via Broadslack Crag.
The Duddon Valley from Long Mire.
The Dunnerdale Fells, Stickle Pike prominent to the right with a cloud covered Black Combe beyond.
Caw from the south - the route of ascent.
Casper on Caw. It was a bit breezy up here today.
White Pike and White Maiden are just about cloud free, the rest of the Coniston fells are covered.
The Duddon Valley.
Looking across to Black Combe from the summit of Caw.
The Duddon Estuary from Caw through the low cloud.
The view from the summit tarn.
Distant Black Combe.
A brief spell of brightness on The Pike and Hesk Fell.
Stickle Pike looks like a giant from this angle.