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Coniston Fells Winter Wonderland Walk
Coniston Fells Winter Wonderland Walk
by TonyShiv » Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:18 pm
Wainwrights included on this walk: Great Carrs, Grey Friar, Swirl How, Wetherlam
Hewitts included on this walk: Grey Friar, Swirl How, Wetherlam
Date walked: 10/02/2016
Time taken: 7.5
Distance: 14.4 km
Ascent: 1172m
1 person thinks this report is great. Register or Login free to be able to rate and comment on reports (as well as access 1:25000 mapping).Yet Another Day of Sunshine in the Snow.
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- The Youth Hostel with Swirl How in the Background
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- Looking Back Down the Coppermines Valley
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- Ahead Lies the Black Sails Ridge and the Red Dell Head Corrie
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- My Footprints in the Snow Leaving the Corrie
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- The Start of Many Iced up Rocks Above the Snowline
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- The Summit of Wetherlam Just as Some Guys Reach it From the North
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- Looking Back Down the Valley from Black Sails
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- Close up of Someone Reaching the Summit of Swirl How
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- Ahead Lies Prison Band from Just Above Swirl Hawse
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- Looking Back East at the Path Above Swirl Hawse from Prison Band
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- The Summit of Swirl How
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- Wetherlam from the Top of Swirl How
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- Clearly Seen out to Sea the Wind Turbines in Morecambe Bay from the Top of Swirl How
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- More Frozen Rock Formations
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- Great Carrs Next
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- Looking Back at Swirl How
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- Wetherlam from the Summit Cairn of Great Carrs
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- The Top of Broad Slack
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- Brim Fell and Dow Crag from the South Eastern Cairn of Grey Friar
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- Looking South from the Top
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- I Wonder if this is Wainwright's Pointed Boulder?
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- Looking Back at Grey Friar
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- Dow Crag and Seathwaite Tarn
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- More Ice Sculpture at Levers Hawse
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- Heading Down to Levers Water
Re: Coniston Fells Winter Wonderland Walk
by ChrisW » Mon Feb 15, 2016 6:44 am
You picked a belter of a day and a belter of a hike too by the look of these wonderful pics Tony 
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