Showing posts with label Armboth Fell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armboth Fell. Show all posts

Friday, 28 October 2022

The simple way to do Walla Crag


So we were missing Walla Crag, which is a fairly short walk from a decent road, so I'd been saving this in case we really needed a short walk.  With Evie sitting this one out, everyone was quite happy to extend this a little.  It would have seemed a rude otherwise, given the weather was much better than the previous days.

Difficulty: 5.9
Walkers: Tim, Caroline, Poppy (12), Piper
11:19, 0.0km 0h00 0m, Start (93)
12:12, 2.1km 0h52 300m, Walla Crag (376, Wainwright)
13:05, 4.5km 1h45 560m, Bleaberry Fell (590, Wainwright)
13:54, 6.4km 2h35 685m, High Seat (Lake District) (608, Wainwright)
14:25, 8.2km 3h05 728m, High Tove (515, Wainwright)
14:54, 9.5km 3h35 796m, Armboth Fell (475, Wainwright)
17:37, 17.5km 6h18 941m, End (65)


Climbing up from Derwent Water

Walla Crag.  The view is really worth the short climb up from the lake.

Looking back towards Derwent Water

Bleaberry Fell

High Seat

Also from High Seat

The wonderful new path.  Now some poeple complain about paths like this, other people are mindful of the benefits to minimising erosion.  I liked keeping my boots dry.

High Tove.  At this point we agreed we had time to go a loop to the next one before heading home.

Armboth Fell, clearly worth the additional steps through boggy ground and crossing streams to let Poppy tick this one off.

Piper was very pleased that our route home was next to some water.  She was less pleased that she was kept on lead...

We finally found another place to let Piper off lead for a bit and go paddling.

The viewpoint in Ashness Wood, looking over Derwent Water

Ashness Bridge.  We had to wait a bit as there were quite a few people hanging around taking pictures here, it's quite a famous packhorse bridge.  It was definitely insta-ready.  We, however, were very much not by this point in our walk!




Saturday, 19 March 2022

Ullscarf and (finally) Armboth Fell

We aimed for the Steel Fell carpark - the road that side of Thirlmere was closed, but we could get to the car park fine from the south side.  

Difficulty: 6.4
Walkers: Tim, Caroline
10:21, 0.0km 0h00 0m, Start (205)
12:27, 5.5km 2h05 598m, Ullscarf (726, Wainwright, Hewitt)
14:02, 10.9km 3h40 723m, High Tove (515, Wainwright)
14:27, 12.2km 4h05 795m, Armboth Fell (475, Wainwright)
17:01, 20.7km 6h39 902m, End (200)



Looking back down towards Thirlmere.

Looking for a place to cross.

Ullscarf.  We took a slight short cut rather than going to Greenup Edge, the direct route to the top.

Just north of Blea Tarn, looking west.

At High Tove, not a new Wainwright for us, but slightly drier than last time we were here.

Finally at Armboth Fell.  Our last trip here had stopped short, this time we got to the right spot.

Descending down to Thirlmere.

At the bottom.

Views to the north of Thirlmere.

The reason why the road was closed, glad we didn't get to here and have to turn around.

Sunset over the fells, reflected in the calm water.