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Here's Part 2 of 3 showing my Wainwright walks, actually this route is one of Bill Birketts, an area we had not been to but it was a really nice sunny day.
We parked up at a small car park at Spout Force and made our way along the well made forest road where we eventually found the way up to Whinlatter by a fallen wall and the edge of a felled forest, very difficult to see the raised entry to this.
- The climb to Whinlatter
- Looking across to Broom Fell and The Lord's Seat
After negotiating the fences and walls we nearly got run over by a fell runner before reaching Brown How, the top of Whinlatter. This afforded us some great views to Grisedale Pike and its surrounding fells.
- Atop Brown How
- Grisedale Pike
We moved on to Whinlatter Top from where we could see our route to The Lord's Seat which looked further away than it was
- Lord's Seat
After skirting the woods and crossing Tarbarrel Moss and Ullister Hill (both Birketts) we arrived at the summit of the Lord's Seat. Here I left hubby to "nip" to Barf and in that time the midges set about him
- Lord's Seat, just back from Barf, great sky !
- Route to Barf
The journey to Barf was not too bad and a couple I walked with took a summit photo for me, I thought this was better than having to climb it in the future from the road below
- Barf summit
- Valley below Barf
- Skiddaw across Bassenthwaite
Now re-united we could see our route to Broom Fell which looked quite easy
- Route to Broom Fell
We were soon at the top of Broom Fell which had a magnificent cairn
- Broom Fell summit
Now we could see our last summit, according to AW it is one and a quarter miles to Graystones.
- To Graystones
There are three tops on Graystones and Wainwrights isn't the highest, visits to all of them saves arguement
- Wainwrights Graystones peak
Now we had a very steep descent back to the valley floor, the photo shows us already a third down
- Steep descent
There were still some great views as we headed for home.
- Great views
It seemed like more than 8.7 miles, perhaps it was the heat, later the midge bites took hold
but we enjoyed the area and the views were fabulous, also we only met about 10 people, one chap was completing every Wainwright route
. Thanks for looking, 3 more tops tomorrow, bye