Start point: Truss Gap, Swindale (516 132)
Truss Gap – Langhowe Pike (OF) – Great Ladstones (OF) – Glede Howe (532) – Seat Robert (533) (OF) – High Wether Howe (534) (OF) –Fewling Stones (OF) – Truss Gap
Distance: 6.2 miles Total Ascent: 410 metres Time Taken: 3 hours
Weather: Sunny spells. 12oC.
This wasn’t a walk I was particularly looking forward to doing as I find the Shap fells to be quite desolate and boggy – but what a surprise, it turned out to be a great walk and I really enjoyed it today. Spring was definitely in the air – the lamb’s were bounding around, the birds were singing and even that rarest of commodities was there at times – the sun was shining! This is definitely a walk I will repeat in the future and I am thankful I never did it when I came here a couple of weeks ago when the rain was bouncing. Then, I opted to climb Great Mell Fell instead and I’m glad I did as I don’t think this would be an easy area to navigate in mist, there being many grassy knolls complete with no paths, walls or any other feature to aid navigation.
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The footbridge across Swindale Beck - the start of the walk is across it and then left, doubling back on the opposite bank.
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Langhowe Pike and Swear Gill shrouded in gorse walking along the Old Corpse Road from Mardale, the puddle making a handy mirror. This is a fantastically graded path, lovely to walk along. I think it would be a good round starting from Mardale and following this path to complete a circular walk - one for the future.
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All is getting brighter now and the sweet smelling gorse is everywhere, here looking back along the path into Swindale before the abrupt turn back along the ridge.
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Glede Howe, the next objective, is directly above this prominent cairn on the knoll below Gambling Crag.