Thursday 27^th August 2009

Start Point : Walna Scar Road (SD 288 970)

Distance : 6.5 miles Height Ascended : 830 metres

Route Map

A bright start but with what would be a continually changing cloud cover - here looking to The Bell

Coppermines Valley overlooked here by Wetherlam and the Furness Fells

A sunlit Grey Crag with Great How Crags and Prison Band darkly silhouetted and partially obscured by cloud

Signs of the recent heavy rain - Low Water Beck cascades down from Brim Fell

Crossing Low Water Beck

The Old Man from Boulder Valley

Simon’s Nick & Paddy End coppermine adjacent to the

south shore of Levers Water

Swirl How over Levers Water

Prison Band and Swirl Hawse from Levers Water dam

Levers Water dam……………….

……..and the weir

(not quite deep enough to get one's feet wet)

Levers Hawse over Levers Water

Looking south across Levers Water

Little and Great How Crags

Brim Fell

The Old Man, Brim Fell and Great How Crags

Pike o’ Blisco and The Langdale Pikes over Wet Side Edge from Swirl Hawse

Looking up Prison Band

Crinkle Crags overtopping Wet Side Edge

Great Carrs

Looking down Greenburn to a distant cloud-topped Helvellyn plateau and Fairfield Horseshoe – Skiddaw far left

Crinkle Crags, Bow Fell and Glaramara across Great Carrs

Wetherlam from the summit of Swirl How - Little Langdale Tarn just left of centre

Similar view through a thin veil of passing cloud

Looking northwest across Great Carrs to the higher Southern Fells

Greenburn and Little Langdale

The high Southern Fells from the summit of Swirl How

Looking south from Swirl How towards The Old Man, Brim Fell and Dow Crag

Looking down Dunnerdale towards Black Combe - Dow Crag to the left

The Scafells from Swirl Band

Seathwaite Tarn

The Old Man of Coniston, Brim Fell and Dow Crag

Prison Band from the top of Great How Crags

Grey Friar (and Crinkle Crags again)

The Old Man from Brim Fell

Looking north along the ridge from Brim Fell's summit cairn to Great Carrs and Swirl How

Coniston - the village and lake

Blind Tarn below Brown Pike

The Coniston Fells looking north along the ridge from the Old Man

A close up of the spectacular east face of Dow Crag

Dow Crag and Harter Fell

Another view looking north from just below the summit of The Old Man

Low Water

A last view of Swirl How and Prison Band across Brim Fell

Boo Tarn - it won't be long before the reeds take over completely!!