Route: Ambleside - Low Sweden Bridge - Low Pike - High Pike - Dove Crag - High Bakestones - Scandale Pass - Scandale - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
Distance: 10.00 miles
Ascent: 2,500ft
Time: 5 hours
With: Members of the Online Fellwalking Club (OFC) and others from the 'Inaugural Meeting of the Wainwright Society'
Notes:
Mild, no wind.
Alfred Wainwright in Fellwanderer: 'These, then were the things - a love of the fells, a desire to escape from the common round, a longstanding interest in maps and an aquired interest in drawing, an insatiable urge to look round the next corner on a trodden way if I could find one and it didn't matter if I couldn't - that caused me in the evening of November 9th 1952 to pen my first page in what I intended to be a series of seven guidebooks to the Lakeland fells, each covering a defined area, and, if you are interested, the first page I did depicted the ascent of Dove Crag from Ambleside.'
Exactly 50 years on saw the Inaugural Meeting of the Wainwright Society at Ambleside Youth Hostel followed for many by an ascent of Dove Crag.
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The Inaugural Meeting of the Wainwright Society, Eric Robson in the chair
Eric Robson with some of the attendees after the meeting
Salutation Inn, Ambleside
Nook End Farm with the Great Rigg side of the Fairfield Horseshoe behind
Ascending the track above Low Sweden Bridge
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell (with cloud in front) and Harrison Stickle from the ridge
Heading towards Low Pike
High Pike from Low Pike summit
Looking back to Low Pike
Looking forward to High Pike
Looking down on Windermere from High Pike
Little Hart Crag and the far eastern fells from High Pike summit
The wall to Dove Crag from High Pike
Approaching Dove Crag summit
Dove Crag summit cairn
Dovedale and Brothers Water from northeast of Dove Crag's summit
Dovedale and Brothers Water from northeast of Dove Crag's summit
Members of the Wainwright Society at Dove Crag's summit
Great Gable, centre, appearing out of the clouds
The view north from Dove Crag's summit towards Hart Crag and Saint Sunday Crag with Helvellyn in the distance
Windermere from High Bakestones
Little Hart Crag
Descending into Scandale from Scandale Pass
In Scandale heading back to Ambleside
Previous Walk: Slater Bridge, Hodge Close and Holme Fell (Sun 3 Nov 2002)
Next Walk: Uldale Fells (Sat 16 Nov 2002)