Wednesday 24^th June 2009

Start Point : Car Park Wet Sleddale Reservoir (NY 554 114)

Distance : 9.0 miles Height Ascended : 470 metres

Route Map

Wet Sleddale Reservoir

Wet Sleddale Reservoir

The Lunch House……………………..

……………………………..doubling up as a pigeon coop!!

One of the many shooting butts that mark the area

Gray Bull a nine foot cube of pink granite

Gray Bull, red boxer and a dark brindle boxer

The summit of Sleddale Pike

The summit of Wasdale Pike

Looking northwest from Wasdale Pike - Harter Fell, Branstree and Selside the principal fells on the skyline

Hetty and Martha on the run

Martha poses for a summit photograph on Great Saddle Crag

Looking across the heathery expanse between Sleddale Pike and Great Saddle Crag

Passing an unnamed pool enroute to Brown Howe (pictured left)

One of several herds of red deer seen near Ulthwaite Rigg……………………

…………………………and another

The head of Sleddale Beck

A local resident

Looking down Sleddale Beck

Looking back to Ulthwaite Rigg and beyond to Tarn Crag and Branstree

The isolated group of trees a conspicuous mark on a mainly featureless scene

Aiming for Seat Robert to pick up the old high-level bridleway back to Wet Sleddale

Looking up the course of Sleddale Beck

Looking down to the old deer enclosures from the bridleway - Sherry Gill to the left

Looking down to the reservoir

Sleddale Hall dating from about 1802 - now a derelict cottage

(this is the "horrible little shack" ‘Crow Crag’ belonging to Uncle Monty in the cult film Withnail and I (1987)

The ‘new’ ‘packhorse’ bridge, Sleddale Beck (erected by Manchester Corporation)

Approaching the head of the reservoir

Common Sandpiper

Sleddale Hall over the reservoir

Wet Sleddale Reservoir (5 hours after the first photograph above)