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29th August 2007
29th August 2007 |
Five fells and a wonderful day with friends. |
Odette and the kids say goodbye as I head up the steep path through the woods to Whinlatter.
Did I mention the word steep
Lots of growth under the trees
Looking back to Grisdale Pike, the Whinlatter road below..
Once at the top of the fence a turn west to Whinlatter Top
closing in on the summit
Weather was looking very grim at this stage but still warm.
Looking along Whinlatter to Brown How
From Whinlatter Top across to Lord Seat
Grisdale Pike to the left, Hopegill Head to the right
Brown How's summit
From just off Brown How you get a wonderful view of what was to come, the Darling How Plantation.
The actual route
takes you out of shot to the right of the trees in the foreground,
then back all the way across the
picture out of shot to the left almost,
and then along the route you can see...
the joys of walking through forrestry.. no walking through fields here..
Shot is to the right of the one above, the summit to the right is Broom Fell
In the valley a water break at last for Jay
If I said over 50% of the walking is on wide paths like this you'd think it would be
very straight forward,
and it is.. but I really really would not have liked to be up
here in bad weather. It not at all easy to work out which way you are going next... in
low cloud... yikes.. no thanks..
From the walk through the Darling How Plantation below Graystones summit across to Whiteside and Hopegill
Again from the same place, across to Low Fell, with Burnbank Fell in the far distance.
The noise when I took this photo was deafening.. and the reason is in there.. center of picture.
With my new Nikon D40 I managed to get 12 photo's of this helicopter.. ohh how I wish I had
received my 55-200mm lens last week.
still not a bad blow up
On David Hall's web site it says this walk up Graystones is really quite steep..
Thank goodness it's not that long.. great views though
Across to Mellbreak
From the top of the fence the view across to Kirk Fell
Follow the wall to the summit of Graystones
yucky grey day.. on Graystones summit
Darling How Plantation with Broom Fell behind
If you look at the pic above, the forrest forms a triangle,
this is taken looking back from the tip of that triangle
From the path to Broom Fell looking back again to Darling How and Graystones
The path ahead to Broom Fell
From near the summit I thought I would try out Jay's recall skills...
I got about 200 yards away from him and he didn't break untill I called him.
And boy did he come quick...
Nearly there.. Broom Fell
Lord's Seat behing the huge cairn on top of Broom Fell.
Over the valley to Whinlatter and Grisdale beyond that
Scotland in the distance..
Over the Lorton Valley
Appraoching Lord's Seat
