Friday 19th June 2009
Start Point : Bothel (NY 183 388)
Distance : 3.1 miles Height Ascended : 160 metres
Route Map 1
The
walks starts just off the A595 at Bothel by a lane / bridleway
that leads steadily upwards.
The path maintains
its gentle ascent between arable fields to the right and boundary fences to the
left - here looking up to the ridge ahead
The controversial
wind farm at Wharrels Hill near Bothel
After the
rain
..
Looking over the
Here comes more
rain
A rather gloomy
looking Bassenthwaite
Even Binsey didn't escape the passing low clouds
From the summit of Caermote Hill
The memorial
boulder on Caermote Hill
Two more plaques
added (Gwen Routledge and Ethel M Dean) since AW
wrote his Outlying Fells of
.a few
more additions to the skyline as well (I wonder what AW would have thought about that)
A brief bright
interlude between showers on the return to Bothel
Start Point : East of Cockermouth on the Higham road
(NY 136 312)
Distance : 3.5 miles Height Ascended : 210 metres
Route Map 2
Watch Hill and Setmurthy Common
..
..a stroll on grass so simple that boots are incongruous
footwear for it and bear feet appropriate (AW)
Looking towards The
Vale of Lorton - the higher Northwestern fells obscured by a thick blanket of cloud
Setmurthy Common
(where the two tree-lines meet) from Watch Hill - a sunlit
The Vale of Lorton
- Mellbreak just right of centre, Low Fell far right.
The summit of Setmurthy Common (no cairn) in the corner where the grass
terminates against the corner of trees
A few of the local
residents showing a little less interest than many of the cows that share the
fields of Watch Hill
Ullock Pike
and Dodd across
Dodd