Wetherlam and the Carrs
Sat 30 Oct 2004
Route: Low Tilberthwaite - Birk Fell Hawse - Wetherlam Edge - Wetherlam - Black Sails - Swirl Hawse - Prison Band - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Little Carrs - Hell Gill Pike - Wet Side Edge - Greenburn - Little Langdale - Low Tilberthwaite
Distance: 8.25 miles
Ascent: 3,200ft
Time: 4 hours 50 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Mild, light winds, overcast to start but cloud breaking up
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Tilberthwaite Gill
Footbridge across Tilberthwaite Gill
Looking back down on Dry Cove Moss
Northerly panorama from Birk Fell Hawse
Wetherlam Edge
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Pike O' Blisco
Looking back down Wetherlam Edge towards Little Langdale Tarn
Scafell, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Pike O' Blisco from Wetherlam Edge
Looking over Wet Side Edge to the Scafells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Pike O' Blisco from near Wetherlam's summit
Coniston Water from Black Sails' summit
Coniston Old Man, Brim Fell and Levers Water from Black Sails' summit
Swirl How and Great Carrs from Black Sails
Levers Water and Coniston Old Man with its top just below the cloud from Prison Band
Swirl How's summit cairn
Grey Friar
Great Carrs
Halifax Bomber crash memorial, Great Carrs
Greenburn leading into Little Langdale
Wet Side Edge
Swirl How and Great Carrs
Looking across Wrynose Pass to Cold Pike and Pike O' Blisco with Crinkle Crags and Bowfell in the distance
On Wet Side Edge
Little Langdale Tarn from low down Wet Side Edge
The Langdale Pikes seen through the Blea Tarn gap
Hodge Close Quarry with the Ill Bell ridge in the distance
Previous Walk: Black Crag and Tarn Hows (Sun 24 Oct 2004)
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