Start point: Wath Brow (NY 031 144)

Wath Brow – Nannycatch Road – Flat Fell (OF) – Nannycatch Gate – Raven Crag – Dent  (OF) – Black How – Wath Brow

Distance: 5.5 miles     Total Ascent: 538 metres     Time Taken: 2 hour 10 minutes

Weather: Clear on the lower fells. 12°C.

It looked a bit murky this morning so I had a trip up the west Cumbrian coast to Cleator Moor to follow a Wainright Outlying Fell walk up to Flat Fell and Dent. The summits are nothing spectacular but the Nannycatch valley and Nannycatch Gate were quite striking. The views to the higher fells were obscured by clouds in the main today.

Flat Fell and Dent route map.

Wath Bridge.

Nannycatch Road.

Dent from Flat Fell.

Angus on the summit of Flat Fell.

Herdus appears from the clouds in the distance.

The valley of Nannycatch Beck from Flatfell Screes.

Nannycatch Lane was a bit wet on the approach to Nannycatch Gate!

Raven Crag.

Flat Fell from Dent, the Loweswater fells beyond.

The Wainwright summit of Dent from the O.S summit.

The summit of Dent.

Descending through golden bracken.

The River Ehen.