Walk Information
Walk route: Lodore Landing Stage, Derwent Water - Lodore Falls - Kettlewell - Barrow Bay - Calfclose Bay - The Ings - Friar's Crag - Keswick, The Theatre by the Lake
Distance: 3.75 miles
Ascent: 50ft
Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
With: Anne, Mum and Dad
Conditions: Amazingly it stayed dry and we even saw the sun towards the end of the walk
Comment: We caught the launch down to Lodore and walked back after lunch at the hotel and visiting Lodore Falls.
Route Map
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Photos
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Keswick landing stages in the rain, I'm inside a launch and dry!
The Jaws of Borrowdale from our Dewernt Water launch
Approaching Lodore
Lodore Falls
More like winter levels of water than August, it was roaring down
Safely off the road on the permissive path between Lodore and Kettlewell
Kettlewell
Between the water and the road
Heading for Barrow Bay
The Skiddaw fells from Barrow Bay
Falcon Crag
Ashness Gate landing stage
Derwent Water shoreline
Looking across Derwent Water to Causey Pike
The Hundred Year Stone, Calfclose Bay, the lake level is high for August
To all those who have helped The National Trust in its first 100 years to preserve land in The Lake District for ever for everyone 1995
Looking up Derwent Water from the Lions Seat
Causey Pike
The path through The Ings is flooded in places
The very top of Castle Head briefly catches some sun
Looking across Derwent Water to Causey Pike
Friar's Crag
Looking up Derwent Water from near Friar's Crag
The heather is out on Carl Side
Back at Keswick landing stages
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