Dock Tarn to Castle Crag
Sat 1 Nov 2014
Route: Stonethwaite - Lingy End - Dock Tarn - Great Crag - Watendlath Tarn - Watendlath - Puddingstone Bank - Grange Fell (Brund Fell) - Grange Fell (King's How) - Bowder Stone - road - Grange in Borrowdale - Broadslack Gill - Castle Crag - River Derwent - Longthwaite - Stonethwaite
Distance: 9.50 miles
Ascent: 2,600ft
Time: 6 hours
With: David Hall
Notes:
Windy, overcast but some splashes of sun. Heavy rain on Grange Fell down to Grange.
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Stonethwaite
The long staircase up Lingy End
Langstrath
Dock Tarn
Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag with High Raise behind and Pike o'Stickle on the right
The view north from Great Crag's northern top
Looking across to Grange Fell
Watendlath
Watendlath Tarn
Caffle House Tearoom at Watendlath
Here comes the weather, time for the waterproofs
On Grange Fell
Brund Fell, Grange Fell's summit
North towards Skiddaw from Brund Fell
Castle Crag
Long Moss
Skiddaw and Derwent Water from King's How
Rosthwaite
Upper Borrowdale
Castle Crag
Descending...
Looking across the River Derwent to Grange Fell
Dalt Quarry
Broadslack Gill
The holly is out, it will soon be Christmas
Castle Crag summit
Looking south up Borrowdale from Castle Crag's summit
The upper quarry
Looking towards Rosthwaite and Stonethwaite
River Derwent stepping stones
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