Skiddaw from Peter House Farm
Sun 5 Apr 2009
Route: Peter House Farm - Whitewater Dash - Birkett Edge - Bakestall - Skiddaw - Sale How - Skiddaw House - Cumbria Way - Whitewater Dash - Peter House Farm
Distance: 9.25 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 3 hours 55 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Sunshine, blue sky with cloud building, windy on Skiddaw as usual
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Blue skies above Binsey
Dead Crags and the valley of Dash Beck with Binsey in the distance
Looking back down Birkett Edge
North from Bakestall's northern summit cairn
Skiddaw from Bakestall's summit
Looking back down on Bakestall as we head up on to Skiddaw
The Edge and the north end of Bassenthwaite Lake
Barkbethdale below
Broad End
A few people on Skiddaw today!
The north western fells
Derwent Water
Lonscale Fell and Skiddaw Little Man with the Helvellyn ridge in the distance
Blencathra and Lonscale Fell from the point where we head left off the main track
Sale How below with Mungrisdale Common behind
Great Calva on the left, Carrock Fell in the centre and Bowscale Fell on the right
Skiddaw House
Looking back along the Skiddaw House track to the 'back' of Blencathra
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