Start point: Grizedale Forest visitor centre (SD 336 945)

Carron Crag (OF) from Grizedale Forest visitor centre

Distance: 3.6 miles     Total Ascent: 243 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Sunny and clear. 5ºC.

The sun was shining and the skies were blue this afternoon, so I took the opportunity for a short walk up to Carron Crag from the Grizedale Visitors centre near Satterthwaite. It’s a little bit odd this walk as most of it is in the forest, so there are no views until you reach the summit ridge where everything opens up before you. Well worth a visit.

Approaching Carron Crag summit.

Coniston Old Man, Swirl How and Wetherlam.

The view from Carron Crag.

A panoramic view of the Coniston fells.

Closing in on The Old Man, the quarry on the face visible.

Swirl How and Wetherlam.

The Leven Estuary.

The Rusland Valley.

Woodcutter in the forest.

...and his brother at the visitors centre.