Blencathra
Scales – Blencathra (Scales Fell – Doddick Fell – Hallsfell Top – Gategill Fell – Knowe Crags – Blease Fell – Atkinson Pike) – Scales
Walks
The Coniston Fells
Torver – Scarr Head – Walna Scar Road – Brown Pike – Buck Pike – Dow Crag – Goat’s Hawse – Coniston Old Man – Scarr Head – Torver
Helvellyn via Striding Edge
Start Point: Patterdale (NY 394 160) Patterdale – Hole-in-the Wall – Striding Edge – Helvellyn – Swirral Edge – Catstycam – Birkhouse Moor – Patterdale Distance: 14.2 km Total Ascent: 898 metres Time Taken: 5 hours 10 minutes Start Time: 06:40 Weather: Some cloud, clearing. 4°C After seemingly endless days of gloom and overcast skies over the last week or two,
Coniston Fells
Start Point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970) Walna Scar Car Park – Coniston Old Man – Brim Fell – Little How Crags – Fairfield col – Grey Friar – Great Carrs – Top of Broad Slack – Swirl How – Prison Band – Swirl Hawse – Levers Water – Boulder Valley – Walna Scar Car Park
Far Easedale Round
Lancrigg Car Park, Easedale – Stythwaite Steps – Tarn Crag East Ridge – Tarn Crag – Codale Head – Sergeant Man – High Raise – Low White Stones – Greenup Edge – Brownrigg Moss – Calf Crag – Gibson Knott – Helm Crag – Lancrigg Car Park, Easedale [17.3km, 805m ascent]
Beacon Fell
Start Point: At the end of the minor road from Brown Howe (SD 281 916) Beacon Fell (OF) from Tottle Bank Distance: 3.7 km Total Ascent: 155 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 15. Start Time: 10:40 Weather: Breezy with sunny spells. 11°C The weather seems to have been incessantly wet over the last couple of weeks and there hasn’t
Lingmoor Fell & Side Pike
Start Point: Blea Tarn Car Park (NY 296 043) Blea Tarn – Bleatarn House – Lingmoor Fell – Lingmoor Tarn – The Squeeze – Side Pike – Blea Tarn Distance: 5.7 km Total Ascent: 365 metres Time Taken: 2 hours Start Time: 10:10 Weather: Cold wind, clear spells, 5°C This is a great little walk, the scenery is fabulous throughout with
Brim Fell Rake & Coniston Old Man
Start Point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970) Walna Scar car park – Low Water – Brim Fell Rake – Brim Fell – Coniston Old Man – Bursting Stone – Walna Scar car park Distance: 7.8 km Total Ascent: 580 metres Time Taken: 2 hours 25 minutes Start Time: 15:35 Monday was a fabulous day, lots of
Coniston Old Man and Dow Crag
Start Point: Walna Scar road (SD 289 970) Walna Scar car park – Coniston Old Man – Goat’s Hawse – Dow Crag – Buck Pike – Brown Pike – Walna Scar car park Distance: 10.4 km Total Ascent: 700 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 50 minutes Start Time: 06:40 It was a case of getting a walk in on a decent
Loughrigg Fell
Start Point: Tarn Foot, Skelwith Bridge (NY 345 039) Tarn Foot – Ivy Crag – Loughrigg Fell – The How – Loughrigg Tarn – Tarn Foot Distance: 5.1 km Total Ascent: 242 metres Time Taken: 2 hours Start Time: 11:00 Weather: Sunny & Bright. 4°C The weather looked as though it would be good today, almost too good to
Great Gable
Start point: Wasdale Head (NY 186 084) Wasdale Head – Moses Trod – Gavel Neese – Beck Head – Great Gable – Westmorland Cairn – Sty Head – Wasdale Head Distance: 10km Total Ascent: 850 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 40 minutes Start Time: 09:50 Weather: Wild and windy. 2°C The summit of Great Gable was cloud covered when I arrived at Wasdale Head but I
The Langdale Pikes
New Dungeon Ghyll – Stickle Tarn – North Rake – Pavey Ark – Thunacar Knott – Harrison Stickle – Dungeon Ghyll – New Dungeon Ghyll [5.4 miles, 725m ascent]
Pike o’ Blisco
Three Shire Stone – Black Crag – Pike o’ Blisco – Red Tarn – Cold Pike – Red Tarn – Three Shire Stone