Saturday, 29 September 2018

Glaramara circuit from Borrowdale 8.5miles 2600ft ascent


Looking back at Rosthwaite village in Borowdale

Combe Gill with Combe Door rising to Combe Head

Derwentwater and the Skiddaw fells from Thornythwaite fell 

The hamlet of Seatoller at the foot of Honister Pass 

Fleetwith Pike (left) Dalehead (right)
with Red Pike through the gap

A helicopter passing below in Grains Gill

Great Gable with the path from Windy Gap clearly visible 

Great Gable (left) Pillar (right)
from the summit of Glaramara 781m (2562ft)

The Langdale Pikes from Glaramara

Morecambe Bay in sunlight

The Solway firth

Great Gable and Green Gable

Great End from the path to Allen Crags

Looking down Grains Gill

Descending Grains Gill down to Seatoller 

Crossing Stockley Bridge....

....with Grains Gill passing beneath

Sunday, 23 September 2018

A walk over Loughrigg Fell (Cumbria) from Ambleside 9miles 1600ft ascent


Leaving Ambleside over the River Rothay

Ambleside from the one of the many paths up Loughrigg

Lake Windermere from Todd Crag

Lily Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn

 Loughrigg summit trig point 335m (1100ft)

Chapel Stile and a very murky Langdale valley

Grasmere

Grasmere shoreline

Grasmere with Helm Crag, Dunmail Raise and Steel Fell still
shrouded in cloud 

The River Rothay flowing out of Grasmere
and down to Rydal Water 

Rydal Water shoreline

Rydal Hall - open to the public

The boat house at the southern tip of Rydal Water

'The Angel' sculpture in the Rydal estate - free to walk through 


Scandale Beck waterfalls where it flows through the Rydal estate

Saturday, 15 September 2018

The 2nd leg of the North Wales Path - Pensarn/Abergele to Colwyn Bay 9 miles 1000ft ascent.


Leaving Pensarn seafront café along the promenade

Passing the impressive Gwrych Castle

Heading inland through Llanddulas

Good views looking back down the valley to the coast

Impressive limestone hills and landscapes




Returning to the seafront at Old Colwyn

Evidence of the winter storms still to be repaired

High tide at Colwyn Bay

Looking back to Llanddulas headland from Colwyn Bay

Thursday, 6 September 2018

Honister to Buttermere via Haystacks and the Buttermere fells. 8.5miles 3,400ft ascent.



Setting off from Honister pass slate quarry

Dubs quarry (disused)

Blackbeck tarn

Buttermere Valley from the climb up Haystacks

Innonimate Tarn where Wainwright asked his wife, Betty, to scatter his ashes.

Buttermere and Crummock water from Haystacks summmit

Pillar again showing the High Level route and the
Shamrock traverse leading to Pillar Rock

Pillar from Haystacks summit

Buttermere and Robinson fell 

Looking back at Haystacks from Seat

Gatesgarth farm in the Buttermere valley

Fleetwith Pike

High Stile from the summit of High Crag

Ennerdale Water with the coast behind

The aptly named Red Pike from High Stile

The lone walker again on Red Pike summit

Starting the descent past Bleaberry tarn to Buttermere 

The very eroded path through the red rock

 Buttermere and Fleetwith Pike from the descent

Buttermere village

Buttermere shore line