Camping in Langdale & our 200th Wainwright

This week we were away again, this time to one of our favourite campsites in Great Langdale.

The tent is pitched with more stunning scenery around us

 

Continuing our blogs of lorries in strange places, Argos came and made a delivery?

 

Looking up at the fell we plan to climb the next day, we can make a circular walk of it by approaching it to the right, climbing it from the other side & coming down this side

 

The campsite is to the left of road, a panorama of the view

 

The next morning we start our walk into Oxendale, towards Stool End Farm, our fell is the one to the left

 

Off the road now & onto a track

 

The bridge is hardly needed to cross Oxendale Beck it is so dry

 

Looking up at Crinkle Crags

 

Now we start our ascent

 

We are soon high above the beck

 

Looking across the valley to The Langdale Pikes

 

Fix the Fells have been busy up here as it is a very well made path

 

Crinkle Crags & Bow Fell

Great Knott

The last push up to a short flat section

Red Tarn comes into view, it’s nice when you get a flat section to stretch your legs a bit.

 

We hope we can now see the summit & this is our last climb

We are right & we have made it to the top.  Zooming in on the campsite you can see our tent (just left below the centre)

The summit cairn & shelter

 

A panorama of the view, again this is stunning 360degree views up here

Looking down on Great Langdale

 

Windermere in the distance

 

Pike of Blisco (705m)

 

Crinkle Crags & Bow Fell

 

Then we start our descent looking down on Langdale

 

Another well marked path, we can see it all the way back down to the road

 

 

And we are nearly off

 

Lots of rabbits running free on the site, Crag wasn’t quite sure what to make of them

 

There’s hardly a cloud in the sky except for these two strange ones

 

We have now walked all the Langdale fells, so to get us another new one we stopped near Grasmere on the way home.  It wasn’t a particularly high one, but it was going to be a steep 400m height gain to the summit.

 

Grasmere lake begins to come into view behind us

 

The path is very good, although the ferns are trying to encroach onto it

 

We come out of the trees, looking down on Grasmere

 

At last the summit slabs come into view

 

A bit of a scramble to the summit

 

The fell in the distance is Pike of Blisco which we were up the day before

 

Stone Arthur (505m) our 200th Wainwright

 

For a small fell the view packs a good punch

 

There is no circular route so we descend back along the same path

It’s been a fab summer so far, long may this glorious weather continue….

Slight Side

At the weekend Tony, Allan, Brian, Gabby & Roo were camping at Nether Wasdale & invited us to join them.  The weather forecast (& indeed the weather) was awful for Friday so we decided to go over on Saturday morning.
The walk they were doing was one we had done before, but there was a fell in Eskdale we still had to climb so we headed to the campsite.  Tony & crew hadn’t left when we arrived so we said our hello’s, put the small tent up & then headed off in our different directions for a days walk.
The rain the day before meant the falls on Whillan Beck were very impressive.

It was again about a 10 mile walk & we could see the fell for most of the walk in.
 
We head to Eel Tarn
 
 
Then past Stony Tarn with Harter Fell in the background (the other one to the one we climbed the week before)
 
The cloud is just catching Sca Fell, we are heading to the fell on the right
 
It lifts as we get a little closer
 
It’s one of those fells that don’t seem to get closer as we walk
 
The path has been quite vague for much of it
 
The route has been quite gentle until this point, we now have 300m of steep ascent to the summit
 
Looking back down the scree slope we have climbed
 
Lots of little tarns below us, giving an idea of how wet it had been underfoot

A bit of a scramble to the summit
 
Eel Tarn looks a long way away from here

The nearly summit photo, it was a bit blowy on top, Slight Side (748m)

We retrace our steps, Crag manages to find a stick in this barren landscape & wants it thrown for about the next 20 mins

A shortcut, not really too many ferns, a diversion is found

We had a couple of footbridges to survey,  you are about a mile from the road here, I guess Tesco don’t make a great profit on this!

Back at the tent, just the small one this time, but a stunning location again

And we have a worn out boy



Great to catch up with Tony & his crew & a good evening was had by all.