Route: A6 north of Kendal - Whiteside Pike - Todd Fell - Capplebarrow - a nameless summit (1,819ft / 555m) - a nameless summit (1,771ft / 541m) - Long Crag - White Howe - a nameless summit (1,736ft / 528m) - Lamb Pasture - Thorn Cottage - A6 north of Kendal
Distance: 10.50 miles
Ascent: 2,200ft
Time: 5 hours 20 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Hill fog - not the blue sky and sunshine forecast.
We followed A. Wainwright's 'The Bannisdale Horseshoe' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 260].
Be warned - there are fences to climb and bogs and tussocks to traverse on this horseshoe.
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Mosergh Farm, we turned right here to follow the bridleway
Whiteside Pike ahead on the skyline as we head for the open fell along this walled track through the farmland
Whiteside Pike summit cairn
Looking across to Todd Fell from Whiteless Pike
A small nameless tarn on the ridge between Capplebarrow and Ancrow Brow
Cairn at spot height 555m the highest point on the horseshoe, a nameless top per Wainwright but called Ancrow Brow by Birkett
Old wall on the Ancrow Brow section of the round
The wall is made of Bannisdale slate
Heading for Long Crag
Looking across the End of Borrowdale to Lord's Seat from Borrowdale Moss
Female Emperor Moth (Saturnia pavonia) on Borrowdale Moss
Looking back to Long Crag (Bannisdale Fell) from our route to White Howe
The trig point at White Howe's summit
Stile across the fence to the south of White Howe. When AW was writing his Outlying Fells guide there was no stile.
Looking down on Lamb Pasture the final top of the round
Looking back to AW's nameless top (528m / 1,736ft), called Borrowdale Head by Birkett
The Whinfell ridge from Lamb Pasture's summit
Bannisdale from Lamb Pasture
Dryhowe below Whiteside Pike and Todd Fell
Part of the Whinfell ridge from the derelict hut to the southeast of Lamb Pasture's summit
Bluebells above Thorn Cottage
Bannisdale High Bridge
Looking back along the bridleway, the old Shap road, as we head for Plough Farm
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