Walk Information

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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

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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.

Photos

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Part of Andy Goldsworthy's Tilberthwaite Touchstone FoldTowards Fairfield from part of the Tilberthwaite quarriesA helping hand across Crook BeckBirk Fell from low down on Steel EdgeLooking across to Wetherlam Edge and Birk Fell HawseSteel EdgeAscending Steel EdgeSteel Edge from near the top, the cloud has lifted off Helvellyn and FairfieldBlea Tarn and Side Pike from Wetherlam's summitRed Dell from Black Sails' south ridgeLooking back up Black Sails south ridgeCoppermines Valley and Coniston WaterLevers Water and Coniston Old Man with its head in the cloudsLevers Water's outflowOne of the many disused mine levelsLevers Water BeckSimon's Nick on the skylineClimbing back out of Coppermines ValleyDescending by Tilberthwaite Gill

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