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Claife Heights

Walked on 07/02/2005

Start point: Far Sawrey (SD 379 954)

Far Sawrey – Moss Eccles Tarn – Wise Een Tarn – Claife Heights (High Blind How) (OF) – Pate Crags – Far Sawrey

Weather: Started off promising with the sun threatening to break through the morning mist…but it never!

This morning’s short walk starts at Sawrey, the home of Beatrix Potter, and is a round of the high ground known as Claife Heights which lies between the western shore of Windermere and Esthwaite Water. The walk follows Wainwright’s Claife Heights chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 80.

Claife Heights

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Looking across to Near Sawrey at the start of the walk. The weather looked promising here as the sun was shining and the mist beginning to clear.

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Moss Eccles Tarn.

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Wise Een Tarn.

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Looking back to Wise Een Tarn on the right and on the left is a reservoir of the Freshwater Biological Association based at Far Sawrey.

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Trig. column on High Blind How, the highest point of Claife Heights. For some reason, Wainwright omitted to mention this although it is slightly off the path.

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High Pate Crags.

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Plenty of trees - snapped like matchsticks - here.

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The path to Sawrey from Belle Grange.

 

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