Great Mell Fell
Mon 21 Jul 2008
Route: Brownrigg Farm - Great Mell Fell - Brownrigg Farm
Distance: 2.00 miles
Ascent: 900ft
Time: 55 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Proper shorts and tee shirt weather.
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The track to Racy Cottage which I followed for about 300 yards
Leave the track at this gate / stile
A steeper section through the bracken
Helvellyn and the Dodds
The most photographed tree in the Lake District? This windblown tree always catches the eye
South to Gowbarrow Fell
Place Fell, Red Screes, St Sunday Crag, Helvellyn and many others
The path to the upper woodland
Left or right it does not matter. Right path for me today and back via the left one
Place Fell and Red Screes from the upper woodland
Eel Crag, Grisedale Pike and Blencathra from Great Mell Fell's summit
360 Panorama from Great Mell Fell's summit
Blencathra
Clough Head, Eel Crag, Grisedale Pike and Blease Fell (Blencathra)
The old rifle range, the hamlet of Troutbeck and Carrock Fell
Blencathra
The North Pennines from Great Mell Fell's summit
Little Mell Fell from the descent
The view south from Great Mell Fell
Little Mell Fell from the lower slopes of Great Mell Fell
Helvellyn and the Dodds from just above that tree...
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