Start point: Grasmere (NY 336 073)
Grasmere – Silver How – Blea Rigg – Easedale Tarn – Easedale – Grasmere
Distance: 6.3 miles Total Ascent: 562 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes Start Time: 08:30
Weather: Rain at first then clearing. 3°C
This wasn’t where I intended to go today but in the northern half of the Lakes, over Dunmail Raise it was raining heavily and continued to do so all morning. Back at Grasmere it was also raining when I set off but it soon cleared with the clouds swirling on and off the high fells leaving behind a fresh carpet of snow on them. The backdrop to today’s walk was the sound of the hunt – the horn, the shouts and the dogs. I think Dougal and Casper quite fancied joining in!
Blea Rigg route map.
Early Silver How across Grasmere.
Misty Grasmere - taken from the opposite side to the first photo.
Looking back along the path from the climb to Kelbarrow.
Sunrise over Loughrigg Fell.
The mist is clinging over Rydal Water and to the side of Loughrigg.
Helm Crag from the Silver How ridge.
Casper and Dougal on Silver How.
Grasmere and Rydal Water.
Low lying mist in the valleys below.
The Langdale Pikes appear across Lang How Tarn from thick cloud with a fresh covering of snow
Dougally Doo.
Looking back to Silver How.
Looking down on Great Langdale.
Wetherlam and the Tilberthwaite Fells also have new snow, Lingmoor Fell between me and them.
Pike o' Blisco dwarfs Side Pike.
The weather is constantly changing, from sun to cloud.
A close up on the Langdales - that's the last I saw of them today.
Great Castle How.
Crinkle Crags at the head of Oxendale with rising cloud from Great Langdale.
Great Carrs in sunshine.
The icy climb.
Heading for Blea Rigg.
Wetherlam from the un named tarn below Blea Rigg.
All sorts going on here, looking down from Blea Rigg.
The frozen summit of Blea Rigg.
Looking the other way, the Langdales have disappeared in the cloud.
Which way Dougal? Heading down to Easedale Tarn.
Helvellyn revealed.
Easedale Tarn reflections.
Tarn Crag reflected.
Tarn Crag and Easedale Tarn panoramic.
Blue skies and sunshine - for now - descending into Easedale.