Clough Head via Fisher's Wife's Rake
Wed 4 Apr 2007
Route: Wanthwaite - Hilltop Quarries - Fisher's Wife's Rake - Jim's Fold - Clough Head - Wanthwaite Bank - Hilltop Quarries - Wanthwaite
Distance: 4.00 miles
Ascent: 1,900ft
Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
A lovely evening walk with blue skies and no wind.
Fisher's Wife's Rake always looks steep and intimidating from below but the route I followed up it avoids the scree with a path to follow all the way. The route is named after the Fishers of Rake How. The husband cut the peat on the fellside above the crags and the wife hauled it down the rake upon a hand-sled!
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Wanthwaite Crags with Fisher's Wife's Rake right of centre from Wanthwaite
Zooming in on Fisher's Wife's Rake
Blencathra from Hilltop Quarries (disused)
Blencathra from next to the ladder stile above Hilltop Quarries
Looking over Low Rigg to the north western fells
I followed the path above the intake wall under Wanthwaite Crags to get to Fisher's Wife's Rake
Looking north to Blencathra from under Wanthwaite Crags
The path leading to Fisher's Wife's Rake
The ascent of Fisher's Wife's Rake starts at this tree
Path ascending Fisher's Wife's Rake
Looking up Fisher's Wife's Rake
Looking down Fisher's Wife's Rake
Blencathra from Fisher's Wife's Rake
Fisher's Wife's Rake
Looking straight down on Lowthwaite Farm from Fisher's Wife's Rake
Fisher's Wife's Rake
Blencathra from the top of the steep part of Fisher's Wife's Rake
The Skiddaw fells from the top of the steep part of Fisher's Wife's Rake
The path continues to zig-zag up the fellside
Looking south to Helvellyn from the top of Sandbed Gill
Jim's Fold
The view south west from Clough Head
Great Dodd from Clough Head with Calfhow Pike on the right
Clough Head summit
Evening light on Red Screes
Looking down on my descent path across Wanthwaite Bank
Another shot of Red Screes, wonderful colour
The sun setting over the north western fells
Previous Walk: Sale Fell (Tue 3 Apr 2007)