2 Nights Camping At Langdale

Last week as the weather was forecast to be so good we decided to head over to Langdale for a couple of nights camping.  The first day we took it easy & just had a stroll along the valley bottom.

The sun set over The Langdale Pikes

The next morning we awoke to almost clear blue skies

We set off to climb Bowfell, which is the fell to the right

The Langdale Pikes again

Very strange two deer grazing with the sheep here

Our route takes us over this “lump” called The Band

Looking down on Langdale

Fix The Fells have been busy with the paths here

A patch of snow still exists up here

We continue on & up

Even higher up the paths are excellent

We have reached the end of The Band & turn right to climb the final 180m

The plateau is named as Three Tarns

The path seems to have disappeared & it is an unpleasant ascent over this boulder field to the summit

Looking across to Crinkle Crags

We finally can see the summit

This is marked on the map as The Great Slab

The summit is on top of these rocks

Once on the summit we get our first views of Eskdale

Sca Fell & Scafell Pike

The campsite is in amongst the trees

Morecambe Bay is hazy in the distance

Crag rests in the shade of one of the boulders

Bowfell (902m) it’s the 6th highest Lakeland Fell & the highest one we had yet to climb

The next fell is a mile away (Esk Pike)

There was only about 100m of ascent between these two

Esk Pike (885m)

It was initially a very steep descent from Esk Pike to Esk Hause

But then it levelled off and you could see many paths meeting at Esk Hause

Looking back at what we had come down

The Langdale Pikes in the distance

At Esk Hause we turned and headed back towards Langdale

Bowfell & Esk Pike

One last peak on the way down, Rossett Pike in the middle of this picture, it doesn’t look like much of a climb

Until we reach Angle Tarn where we realise the path climbs up quite steeply

Now Rossett Pike did require a little more effort

Looking back down on Angle Tarn from the summit

A bit blurred but Rossett Pike (606m)

Looking over the edge and down onto our path out

Langdale looks a long way below

Looking back up

After a steep route down we are back in the valley

It was a long (7 hour) walk but the views were excellent.  Let’s hope this weather keeps up and we can get some more new fells in over the summer (35 Wainwrights to go!)