Sallows and Sour Howes
Sat 16 Aug 2008
Route: Ullthwaite Bridge - Kentmere Tarn - Kentmere Hall - Crabtree Brow - Garburn Pass - Sallows - Sour Howes - Capple Howe - Ullthwaite Bridge
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 1,500ft
Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Overcast to start but cloud breaking a bit to give some sunny intervals.
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The track to Ulthwaite Fold (l) and Croft Head (r) with Sallows in the distance
Sawmill Cottage, home of Kentmere Pottery
'Works', Hollingsworth & Vose Air Filtrations Ltd
The track north from the works
Kentmere Tarn, long and narrow
Looking over Kentmere Tarn to Long Houses and Green Quarter Fell
Kentmere from the path to Kentmere Hall
Looking across Kentmere to Kentmere Pike and Shipman Knotts
Zooming in on Kentmere Chruch
Green Quarter Fell
Kentmere Hall
Badger Rock and Sallows from the Garburn Pass track
Kentmere Hall bottom right and Kentmere Tarn in the middle distance
Looking back down my ascent route from Kentmere
Wansfell with the high fells beyond from Garburn Pass
Red Screes and Caudale Moor
Looking over the Garburn Pass to Yoke
Sallows summit
Sour Howes from Sallows summit
Zooming in on Windermere
The Howgill Fells
Sour Howes from Moor Head
The Ill Bell ridge from Sour Howes
Approaching Sour Howes summit
Looking back to Sour Howes from Capple Howe
Sallows from Capple Howe
The Kentmere valley and Brunt Fell from my pathless descent off Capple Howe
The heathers out
Sallows from the bridleway
Sour Howes from a ford and stepping stones on the bridleway back down into Kentmere
Looking back to Sour Howes and Sallows
The derelict cottage near Black Beck, sketched by AW in his Outlying Fells guidebook, High Knott chapter
The 17th century Ullthwaite Bridge
Previous Walk: Great Calva and Knott (Fri 15 Aug 2008)