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Top o’ Selside

Walked on 21/11/2005

Start point: High Nibthwaite (SD 295 897)

High Nibthwaite – Brock Barrow – Low Light Haw (OF) – High Light Haw (OF) – Stang Hill –Arnsbarrow Hill – Top o’ Selside (OF)– High Nibthwaite

Distance: 5 miles     Total Ascent: 474 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour 50 minutes

Weather: Cold, cloud at valley level. 3oC.

It was cold and misty on the drive up to the east side of Coniston. Would it be cold enough at valley level to create a temperature inversion, where the cloud remains at a very low level and you can climb above it to clear skies? Well let’s see….

a Top o' Selside

b Top-o'-Selside--003

Ascending to a cold looking Brock Barrow through the mist.

c Top-o'-Selside--004

Wow! The temperature inversion was there. This view shows the Coniston Fells from Brock Barrow, a thick layer of cloud covers Coniston Water.

d Top-o'-Selside--005

Looking across to Beacon Fell.

e Top-o'-Selside--007

Coniston Old Man and Wetherlam.

f Top-o'-Selside--013

Panoramic view of Coniston Water.

g Top-o'-Selside--014

Southwards to the Crake Valley.

h Top-o'-Selside--021

Woodland and the Southern Outlying fells.

i Top-o'-Selside--006

Soaking up the rays.

j Top-o'-Selside--064

The valleys to the south east and the Kent Estuary are lying under a blanket of cloud too.

k Top-o'-Selside--048

Dow Crag.

l Top-o'-Selside--078

A frozen Arnsbarrow Tarn.

m Top-o'-Selside--085

The Coniston fells from Top o' Selside.

n Top-o'-Selside--088

Top o' Selside.

o Top-o'-Selside--106

The clouds start to lift on the descent and Coniston Water is once again visible.

p Top-o'-Selside--111

Coniston Water and the Coniston fells from the descent.

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