Walk Information
Walk route: Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Coniston) - Cove Bridge - Goat's Water - Goat's Hawes - Dow Crag - Buck Pike - Brown Pike - Walna Scar - White Maiden - Ash Gill Quarry - Banishead Quarry - Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Coniston)
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 2,100ft
Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
With: Anne
Conditions: Dry, sunny intervals, windy on the tops
Comment: We followed a combination of A. Wainwright's ascent of Dow Crag from Coniston in his 'The Southern Fells' guide [Dow Crag 8] and his 'Walna Scar' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 114]
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Photos
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Swirl How and Wetherlam with The Bell in the foreground from the Walna Scar Road car park
Dow Crag from Cove Bridge, Walna Scar Road
Looking up at Dow Crag from Goat's Water
Goat's Water from Goat's Hawes
Goat's Water and Dow Crag from Goat's Hawes
Scafell (top in cloud), Scafell Pike, Broad Crag, Ill Crag and Great End from the climb up to Dow Crag summit from Goat's Hawes
Coniston Old Man from Dow Crag summit
Looking down Easy Gully, Dow Crag
Looking back to Dow Crag from Buck Pike
Brown Pike and Blind Tarn from Buck Pike
Green Crag and Harter Fell, Eskdale from Buck Pike
White Maiden, White Pike and Caw from Walna Scar summit
Dow Crag, Buck Pike, Brown Pike and Coniston Old Man from the descent off White Maiden
The big hole, Banishead Quarry
Folded rocks, Timley Knott, Coniston Old Man
previous walk - Sat 22 Jun 2002 - Scout Scar
next walk - Tue 25 Jun 2002 - Loughrigg Fell