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Route: Limefitt Park, Garburn Road, Garburn Nook, Buck Crag, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, Threshthwaite Mouth, Stony Cove Pike, Caudale Moor, Rough Edge, Caudale Quarry, Caudale Bridge, Sykeside, Hartsop Hall, Cow Bridge
Date: 11/10/2015
From: Troutbeck
Parking: Roadside Parking
Start Point: Limefitt Caravan Park
Region: Far Eastern Fells
Route length: 10 miles (16.1 km)
Time taken: 05:08
Average speed: 2 mph
Ascent: 1,135m
Descent: 1,114m
Wainwrights on this walk:
Yoke (706m), Ill Bell (757m), Froswick (720m), Thorthwaite Crag (784m), Stony Cove Pike (763m)
Other Summits: Caudale Moor (755m)
Other points of interest: Thornthwaite Beacon, Threshthwaite Mouth, Caudale Quarry
After an extended period exploring the Northern and Western fells, it was time to pay a visit to the Far Eastern Fells once again. I spent a number of weekends around here last year using a convenient base in Martindale to explore the fells around Bannerdale and Boredale. In the south of the area is one of the stars of the Lake District; the Kentmere valley and the rollercoaster of fells that embrace it.
It was a slightly disappointing day weather-wise - a low cloud draped itself across the very highest peaks. We were all set to use two cars to complete this walk; one stationed at Brother's Water at the end and one in Kentmere to begin with - a 40-minute drive away. We were aiming for the Garburn Pass which links Kentmere and Troutbeck and it wasn't until a spark of common sense urged us to start at Troutbeck instead, thus saving us a half-hour drive round to Kentmere. It's funny how one idea sticks in your head and seemingly blinds you to the obvious. Now earlier than planned, we headed off.
As I mentioned, the Garburn Pass joins Troutbeck and Kentmere via the depression between Sallows and Yoke and would provide us access to the open fells above Kentmere. We saved ourselves a few hundred metres of walking by climbing the steep slopes above the Limefitt Park caravan site where we joined the rough track up the pass. Despite the initial steepness of our detour, the track has a shallow gradient and is easy to follow, even in the worst weather.
Troutbeck and the route for the day, along the skyline in the centre |
The track that runs across the Garburn Pass |
Wansfell on the opposite side of the valley |
The grass-covered slopes of Yoke |
The Garburn Pass gives way to a more traditional path |
Yoke from Buck Crag |
Looking back to Sour Howes and Windermere |
Kentmere Park |
Yoke's summit |
Kentmere reservoir |
Ill Bell up ahead |
Ill Bell looms ahead |
Looking back along the path to Yoke |
Yoke |
Panorama from Rainsborrow Cove |
The summit of Ill Bell |
Ill Bell's summit cairn |
Froswick with just a glint of sunlight shining upon it |
Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag and Threshthwaite Mouth |
Froswick |
Threshthwaite Crag and Thornthwaite Crag |
Harter Fell |
Ill Bell |
Heading up Froswick |
Froswick's summit |
Ill Bell from Froswick |
Thornthwaite Crag |
Looking back into Kentmere |
Looking towards Troutbeck |
Thornthwaite Beacon |
Threshthwaite Mouth |
The top of the Troutbeck Valley |
Caudale Moor over Threshthwaite Mouth |
Thresthwaite Cove and Pasture Bottom |
Looking back to Thornthwaite Crag |
The steep climb up to Stony Cove Pike |
Froswick and Ill Bell |
The path levels out towards the top of Stony Cove Pike |
Cairn on Stony Cove Pike |
A cross we stumbled across on the ground |
The flat expanse of Caudale Moor |
Mark Atkinson's Memorial |
Plaque dedicated to William Atkinson |
Mark Atkinson's Memorial |
Looking down Rough Edge |
Caudale Head |
The Kirkstone Pass |
Red Screes and Middle Dodd |
Rough Edge looking to Patterdale |
Caudale Quarry |
Abandoned building in Caudale Quarry |
An ominous-looking entrance |
Caudale Quarry |
Hartsop Dodd |
High Hartsop Dodd across the valley |
Hayeswater Gill draining the reservoir of the same name |
High Hartsop Dodd |
Hartsop Dodd over Brothers Water |
Cow Bridge |
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