Walk Information
Walk route: Quayfoot quarry car park - Bowder Stone - King's How - Grange Fell (Brund Fell) - Ether Knott - Brown Dodd - High Lodore - Cannon Dub - Grange, Borrowdale - Quayfoot quarry car park
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 1,500ft
Time: 3 hours 50 minutes
With: on own
Conditions: Blue sky, scattered cloud and sunshine, hardly any wind
Route Map
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Licence number AL100038401
Photos
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The Bowder Stone
Looking across to the wooded Castle Crag and High Spy
The view up Borrowdale from the ascent
Looking back down the path
The path to King's How summit
Upper Borrowdale, still some snow of Great End, Scafell Pike and Great Gable
Skiddaw and Derwent Water from King's How
Skiddaw and Derwent Water from King's How
Skiddaw and Derwent Water from King's How, again, what a view!
King Edward VII memorial plaque, King's How, Grange Fell
Looking over the village of Grange to the pointed Catbells
Long Moss
Looking back to King's How as I ascend Brund Fell
Brund Fell the highest top on Grange Fell
Brund Fell summit
Jopplety How (near right) and the ridge to Ether Knott (in shadow, centre) from Brund Fell
High Tove with the Helvellyn ridge behind
Joppletyhow Moss
Ether Knott is getting closer, just follow the fence
Ether Knott, called Heather Knott by Mark Richards in his Lakeland Fellranger Central Fells guide
Looking back to Brund Fell from Ether Knott's summit
Ether Knott's summit
Zooming in on Watendlath
Brown Dodd
Manesty
Derwent Water from Brown Dodd
Derwent Water and Skiddaw as I take a twisting route down through Comb Crags
Skiddaw from the bridge over the River Derwent
Looking back along the boardwalk, made of recycled plastic, to the bridge
Derwent Water and Skiddaw as the cloud builds
The double bridge over the River Derwent at Grange
previous walk - Sun 30 Mar 2008 - Souther Fell
next walk - Sun 13 Apr 2008 - Grike, Crag Fell and Lank Rigg