Walk Information
Walk route: Ash Landing (Windermere Ferry) - Far Sawrey - Moss Eccles Tarn - Wise Een Tarn - Highs Moss - Claife Heights (High Blind How) - High Pate Crag - Low Pate Crag - Claife Station - Windermere - Ash Landing (Windermere Ferry)
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 900ft
Time: 3 hours 0 minutes
With: Anne
Conditions: overcast with some sunny intervals. The section through the forest was very wet and muddy underfoot in places
Comment: A. Wainwright's 'Claife Heights' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 80] but we started from Ash Landing rather than Far Sawrey.
Route Map
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Photos
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Windermere
Sawrey Hotel, Far Sawrey
Track to Moss Eccles Tarn
Moss Eccles Tarn
Wise Een Tarn
The Langdale Pikes
Looking over Windermere to Nab Scar, High Pike, Red Screes and Wansfell Pike
The Ill Bell ridge
High Blind How's summit
Wetherlam from High Blind How's summit
Woodland
High Pate Crag
Bowness-on-Windermere and Belle Isle
Windermere
Small, unnamed tarn
Track heading for Ash Landing
Claife Station
Built as a view point in the 1790s and at its most fashionable with tourists in the 1830s and 40s
Looking across to Ferry Nab, Bowness from Ferry House
Rainbow
Looking south down Windermere from the ferry
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