Start point: Beckside (SD 153 847)
Beckside – Whicham Mill – Whitecombe Head – Black Combe (OF) – South Top of Black Combe – Eller Peatpot – Beckside
Distance: 5.5 miles Total Ascent: 560 metres Time Taken: 2 hours
Weather: Overcast. 15oC.
More cloud but no rain at least for our walk this morning up to Black Combe, that great hulk of fell at the south-western tip of the Lake District. It is a relatively easy ascent following Whitecombe Beck all the way to Whitecombe Head, the sting in the tail being the very steep descent to get back to the valley.
Whicham Mill.
Heading along Whitecombe Valley.
Whitecombe Beck.
Casper seems to like it in there!
Whitecombe Valley.
Looking across to Black Combe from the climb across the lower slopes of White Combe.
The same view from higher up, the clouds are down on the summit of Black Combe up to the right.
Looking along the valley to Barrow-in-Furness and Walney Island across the Duddon Estuary beyond Millom.
Heading for Black Combe.
Angus and Casper on the misty summit of Black Combe.
A close-up of Barrow and Walney Island with Haverigg in the foreground.
White Combe from Black Combe. The path used in ascent can be seen zig-zagging to the left.
Blackcombe Screes from Eller Peatpot.
Angus.
White Hall Knott from the descent.
Blackcombe Beck.