Ascent: about 800m
Weather: sunshine and showers
Seen: heron, lots of sheep, tree that looked like it was growing out of a rock, but wasn't
Heard: Jetfighter very close by in next valley
The morning was spent doing washing and reading Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome and getting valuable tips on sailing, for if/when we ever take up sailing... this will possibly just after I take up ghyll scrambling...
We took the disused railway line into Coniston and then the lane around to the Coppermines, the same as yesterday, but where we turned off (possibly too soon) yesterday, we carried on up today. Not far along Hole rake, to the surprise of the group of people coming the other way, we turned off up the grassy slope to Kitty Crag. From there, we went to Long Hill, High Wythow, Low Wythow and Brackeny Crag (not shown on the OS map) before dropping down to the path that leads to Tilberthwaite Gill and Yewdale Beck. The beck is crossed by a little footbridge, which was easier than the stepping stones over Crook Beck just beforehand. I made it eventually...
We followed the easy path around and then headed up the coll and up to the top of Blake Rigg, Haystacks, through the windswept trees and steep grass hillside (with plentiful sheep poo) up to Hawk Rigg, High Fell and Great Intake. We followed a path passed some mine workings and then down following the wall to the National Trust car park at Low Tilberthwaite. Here we had a bit of a sit on a bench, before following the lane down to the main road, where there is a lovely path through woodland that runs next to the road all the way back into Coniston.
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Towards Langdale
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