Ascent: 500m
Weather: damp, low cloud, claggy on tops
Critters seen: red squirrel, buzzard, many slugs.
We set off walking before 10am to the bleating of sheep and lambs near the lane. Primroses and daffodils lined the path and we saw robins, chaffinches and great tits in the hedgerows. Turning off the lane by a bench announcing that someone was dead, we followed a green terraced path up on to the fellside and up into the clag.
We passed a couple of cairns and dropped down a little path to cross Crabtree Beck and followed the edge of a small wood, rewarded with the sight of a red squirrel in the trees.
Heading upwards, mostly off path, we reached Low Fell (423m) - to meet the same group of walkers that we'd seen yesterday on Grike, recognised mainly by the older chap with his drinking tube perpetually in his mouth.
The tops of the hills were cloudy and wet, we wandered about over various tops (Sourfoot Fell and Smithy Fell) until we reached Fellbarrow (416m) and the dropped down though sheepy, gorsey moorland, until we reached the track, which we followed back to the car. After lunch we had a walk along the shore of Loweswater and back, to look at the views (obscured from the higher places today) and the little lambs.
Wainwrights ticked off this weekend: 8
Remaining: 28
Weather: damp, low cloud, claggy on tops
Critters seen: red squirrel, buzzard, many slugs.
We set off walking before 10am to the bleating of sheep and lambs near the lane. Primroses and daffodils lined the path and we saw robins, chaffinches and great tits in the hedgerows. Turning off the lane by a bench announcing that someone was dead, we followed a green terraced path up on to the fellside and up into the clag.
We passed a couple of cairns and dropped down a little path to cross Crabtree Beck and followed the edge of a small wood, rewarded with the sight of a red squirrel in the trees.
Heading upwards, mostly off path, we reached Low Fell (423m) - to meet the same group of walkers that we'd seen yesterday on Grike, recognised mainly by the older chap with his drinking tube perpetually in his mouth.
The tops of the hills were cloudy and wet, we wandered about over various tops (Sourfoot Fell and Smithy Fell) until we reached Fellbarrow (416m) and the dropped down though sheepy, gorsey moorland, until we reached the track, which we followed back to the car. After lunch we had a walk along the shore of Loweswater and back, to look at the views (obscured from the higher places today) and the little lambs.
Wainwrights ticked off this weekend: 8
Remaining: 28
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