Lake District: Caw Fell and Haycock
Wainwrights: Caw Fell, Haycock
Hewitts: Haycock
Date walked: 31/08/2023
Time taken: 6.5 hours
Distance: 18km
Ascent: 874m
After yesterday's long and exhausting walk, I did not have high expectations of achieving much today - but we awoke feeling a lot better after a good night's sleep, and decided to at least set off up Caw Fell, since we were not likely to be so close to it again...
Close being a relative term, of course - there are no short routes up Caw Fell - but the route from Ennerdale is about as short as they get.
So we parked yet again at Bowness Knott (another £8 - an annual pass is only £25 so if we had parked one more time it would have made sense...), and set of yet again down the lake side road and over the Irish bridge.
This time we headed straight on once we reached the far side of the valley, along a very pleasant forest road...
Forest road
That turned into quite a pretty forest path...
Forest path
At one point just before crossing Silvercove Beck there is a point that Wainwright highlights as "a sudden drop that is difficult to negotiate...
Tricky step
But it really wasn't anything significant, and the footbridge was soon reached.
Footbridge over Silvercove Beck
From here the path headed up through the forest on a rather pretty path flanked with heather.
Up through the heather
These sheep seemed like they were telling us to get off their path. But they soon moved.
Sheep block the way
The end of the trees seemed to come a lot sooner than it had yesterday.
Out of the trees
From the ridge there was another nice panorama over Ennerdale lake.
Ennerdale panorama
The ridge was fairly gentle, and not too long, and we arrived at the top of Caw Fell much more easily than we had the day before on Steeple.
Caw Fell summit
Haycock from Caw Fell
From there it was just a question of "follow the wall" to get to Haycock.
Caw Fell from Haycock
The views from Haycock summit were great.
Scafell from Haycock summit
Steeple from Haycock summit
Shame the shelter was not he other side of the wall. Good thing we did not need it.
Haycock summit shelter
The wall
Very few people about on these fells - I think once we left the forest road we only saw one other walker all day.
Haycock summit
From here it was down more-or-less the way we had come. A much more satisfying day than yesterday, and the Western Fells completed. 3 to go...
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