Friday 2^nd May 2008

Start Point : High Nibthwaite (SD 294 896)

Distance : 4.4 miles Height Ascended : 380 metres

Route Map

Today’s walk followed A. Wainwright’s Top o’ Selside walk in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’ until reaching

the summit of Top o’ Selside when an alternative return route was chosen via Arnsbarrow Tarn and Arnsbarrow Hill.

NB Brock Barrow is a nameless summit (748’) in the AW chapter.

Beacon Fell across High Nibthwaite and the southern end of Coniston Water

Looking down on Allan Tarn from the short steep climb up Brock Barrow

Gaining height quickly and another view of the southern end of Coniston

Looking northwest across Brock Barrow's second cairn.

The Coniston and Furness Fells hidden beneath a thick blanket of towering cumulus

High Light Haw with Top o' Selside and Arnsbarrow Hill beyond

Looking back across the summit of High Light Haw to Low Light Haw and Brock Barrow

The pointed summit of Caw from Selside - the thick bank of cumulus continues to obscure the high fells

Bruce Top o' Selside

Dark skies over The Old Man

Arnsbarrow Tarn

Top o' Selside and Arnsbarrow Tarn

'Who's a pretty boy then....'

Stonechat

Low Light Haw and a distant Caw

High Wood bluebells