Friday 15^th August 2008

Start Point : Walna Scar Raod car park (SD 289 970)

Distance : 6.3 miles Height Ascended : 580 metres

Route Map

Walna Scar Road at the beginning of today's walk

Boo Tarn - a little easier to find after the recent heavy rains!!

Hetty amongst the grasses of Boo Tarn

The first look at Brown Pike and Buck Pike - Walna Scar Pass the low point on the left skyline

Further along the path and extended views of Dow Crag and The Old Man of Coniston open up and dominate for a while

Cove Bridge

Looking up to Goat's Hawse as it catches a passing shower - a moody looking Dow Crag to the left

Old quarry workings below The Old Man

Blind Tarn

Coniston Water viewed from the old spoil heaps below the summit of Brown Pike

Hetty contemplating the possibility of a dip?

Buck Pike, The Old Man of Coniston and Blind Tarn

Some of the old quarry buildings below Brown Pike............

.......and again from a higher vantage point

Walna Scar and Caw from Brown Pike

The view in the opposite direction - Buck Pike and a partially obscured Old Man

Looking northwest towards Green Crag and Harter Fell

Grey Friar, Dow Crag , Buck Pike, Brown Pike and The Old Man from White Maiden the high point on Walna Scar

The junction of walls just below the summit of White Maiden and a view of the Duddon Estuary

A near summit pose from Hetty

Looking down the ravine of Red Gill………………………..

………………………and ooking up the ravine of Red Gill

And again with Brown Pike to the right

Red Gill Beck above the old Ash Gill Quarry

Spoil heaps of the old Ash Gill Quarry

The buttresses of an old collapsed bridge across Red Gill Beck – mentioned by AW in his Walna Scar chapter of ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’

The big hole, Banishead Quarry (AW)

Walna Scar, Brown Pike, Buck Pike, Dow Crag and the southern front of the Old Man from Banishead

Common Blue and Greenbottle

Looking north across the grassy expanse of Banishead towards the Far Eastern Fells

Black Sails, Wetherlam and Furness Fells