Start point: Tilberthwaite car park (NY 306 010)
Tilberthwaite – Steel Edge – Wetherlam – Wetherlam Edge – Tilberthwaite Gill – Tilberthwaite
Distance: 4.4 miles Total Ascent: 693 metres Time Taken: 2 hours
Weather: Grey and hazy, gradually clearing. 14°C.
Absolutely the connoisseurs way up to Wetherlam, this walk is a full Lakeland in miniature with steep, rocky ascents, grassy paths, tarns, rivers and two edges – Steel Edge and Wetherlam Edge. Steel Edge is quite steep but a real joy to walk up and once on Wetherlam itself there are great views of the Coniston fells, Coniston Water, over to the Langdales and beyond.
Wetherlam route map.
Some Autumnal colours - Tilberthwaite along Tilberthwaite Gill.
Crossing Crook Beck before reaching Steel Edge.
Looking across Drycove Bottom to Wetherlam Edge from Steel Edge.
Looking back down Steel Edge.
Wetherlam along the ridge.
Swirl Band and Swirl How across one of the tarns on Wetherlam, Black Sails is in the middle ground.
A grey dog on the grey summit of Wetherlam.
Descending Wetherlam Edge.
The Crinkle Crags and Pike o' Blisco across Greenburn and the Wrynose Pas.
Coming back round past Steel Edge.
Tilberthwaite Gill.
Old mine levels at Tilberthwaite.