Walk Information
Walk route: Low Tilberthwaite - Steel Edge - Wetherlam - Black Sails - south ridge - Levers Water - Coppermines Valley - Irish Row - Crook Beck - Low Tilberthwaite
Distance: 7.25 miles
Ascent: 3,000ft
Time: 7 hours 0 minutes
With: Jill, Nigel, James and Olivia
Conditions: Surprisingly it stayed dry. Overcast with a cloud base around 2,500ft but lots of sunny intervals.
Route Map
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Photos
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Part of Andy Goldsworthy's Tilberthwaite Touchstone Fold
Towards Fairfield from part of the Tilberthwaite quarries
A helping hand across Crook Beck
Birk Fell from low down on Steel Edge
Looking across to Wetherlam Edge and Birk Fell Hawse
Steel Edge
Ascending Steel Edge
Steel Edge from near the top, the cloud has lifted off Helvellyn and Fairfield
Blea Tarn and Side Pike from Wetherlam's summit
Red Dell from Black Sails' south ridge
Looking back up Black Sails south ridge
Coppermines Valley and Coniston Water
Levers Water and Coniston Old Man with its head in the clouds
Levers Water's outflow
One of the many disused mine levels
Levers Water Beck
Simon's Nick on the skyline
Climbing back out of Coppermines Valley
Descending by Tilberthwaite Gill
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