Start Point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970)
Walna Scar car park – Coniston Old Man – Goat’s Hawse – Dow Crag – Buck Pike – Brown Pike – Walna Scar car park
Distance: 10.4 km Total Ascent: 700 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 50 minutes Start Time: 06:40
It was a case of getting a walk in on a decent weather day again between not so decent weather day! The days are drawing longer with sunrise now at 07:10 so at least I managed to get halfway up The Old Man before that time and even then the low cloud blocked it out for a short while. There was a reminder that we are still in winter with snow on the tops and a bitingly cold wind.
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Note: Route map is for indication purposes of general direction only.
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Fletcher. We sat with Angus, Casper and Dougal for a short while (they were our older fell walking Bearded Collie companions, their ashes were scattered here) before moving on. The wind was strong and icy now brrr.
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Looking across Levers Water, there is a lot of cloud over the eastern fells and it looked as though there were snow showers fleeting through too.
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It looked very similar to the north too and the Scafells were nowhere to be seen. Perhaps I struck lucky with this little south western corner of sunshine.
John Atherton (and the bunny) says
A very familiar route with an excellent set of photos. Nice touch at the end with the string of sheep!
Sean McMahon says
Thanks John, yes a familiar route but still a good one! There was a lot of shouting and whistling going on with the shepherds trying to round up the errant sheep.
Ian A says
Nice one Sean.
Sean McMahon says
Thanks Ian 🙂