Start point: Aira Force car park (NY 398 206)
Aira Force car park – Aira Force – Hind Crag – Bernard Pike – Green Hill (450) – Gowbarrow Fell (451) – High Force – Aira Force car park
Distance: 4 miles Total Ascent: 614 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 45 minutes
Weather: Starting off dull and overcast but quickly turning wet and wild. 8°C.
The weather has returned to dull and wet this week and today’s walk was a circuit of Gowbarrow Park taking in Aira Force waterfall. The heavens opened when I was up on Green Hill, backed by a strong wind so I was glad to get down to the relative shelter of High Force. Ten minutes later and I think I would have missed the views altogether.
The dramatic Aira Force.
...and looking down from the bridge across it.
The head of Ullswater from Green Hill.
Glenridding Dodd, Birkhouse Moor and Sheffield Pike.
The Ullswater Steamer passes Silver Bay.
Birks and Saint Sunday Crag tower over Keldas and Glenridding.
Place Fell across Ullswater.
Hallin Fell with Loadpot Hill in the distance.
A leaden sky looking across Ullswater; behind me the views had disappeared as 'weather' arrived.
It was wet and wild now on the summit of Green Hill, looking towards Gowbarrow Fell.
The summit of Gowbarrow Fell with Little Mell Fell beyond.
A 'moving' High Force...
...and a 'frozen' one.
High Force.