Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Completion of The Eastern Fells

Today we completed the final fell in Wainwright’s Eastern Fells book.
We parked at Dunmail Raise which gave us the advantage of being at 226m to start off with.
The first part of the walk was parallel with the A591 along a grassy path
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Looking up at the fell, rather than go directly at it the route we have chosen follows Raise Beck
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The path keeps drifting in and out of the sunshine
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We need to climb up to the skyline before turning right for the final 160m of height
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Looking back the road seems a long way down now
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Crag is very happy we are following a beck and he climbs up via the beck for much of the walk
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And waits for stones to be thrown whenever there is a pool of water
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The path flattens out & we know we will be turning right shortly
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To our left is Dollywagon Pike
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And this is what we have left to climb
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Grisedale Tarn comes into view, we have walked to it before but then headed for Ullswater
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We are nearly at the top now, looking back
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A panorama from the summit, the tarn is Grasmere, to the eagle eye Windermere & Coniston are also visible (it’s a bit hazy in the photograph)
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And looking north-east, Ullswater is just visible.  You can also see Helvellyn & Fairfield from here
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Seat Sandal (736m)
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It was just a there & back walk today so we retrace our steps back
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It got really windy whist we were on the summit & you can just see the waves it is making on Grisdale Tarn
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A very nice 3 hour walk & we are into single figures now for our Wainwright’s

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