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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


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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...

ImageForest road

That turned into quite a pretty forest path...

ImageForest 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...

ImageTricky step

But it really wasn't anything significant, and the footbridge was soon reached.

ImageFootbridge over Silvercove Beck

From here the path headed up through the forest on a rather pretty path flanked with heather.

ImageUp through the heather

These sheep seemed like they were telling us to get off their path. But they soon moved.

ImageSheep block the way

The end of the trees seemed to come a lot sooner than it had yesterday.

ImageOut of the trees

From the ridge there was another nice panorama over Ennerdale lake.

ImageEnnerdale 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.

ImageCaw Fell summit


ImageHaycock from Caw Fell

From there it was just a question of "follow the wall" to get to Haycock.

ImageCaw Fell from Haycock

The views from Haycock summit were great.

ImageScafell from Haycock summit


ImageSteeple from Haycock summit

Shame the shelter was not he other side of the wall. Good thing we did not need it.

ImageHaycock summit shelter


ImageThe wall

Very few people about on these fells - I think once we left the forest road we only saw one other walker all day.

ImageHaycock 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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Comments: 4



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Attachment(s) Wainwrights: Steeple
Date walked: 30/08/2023
Distance: 20.3km
Ascent: 1020m
Comments: 3
Views: 869


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Activity: Mountaineer
Pub: Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
Mountain: Helvellyn
Place: Skye
Gear: Boots
Member: National Trust
Ideal day out: Ridge walk

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2023

Trips: 3
Distance: 54.8 km
Ascent: 3064m
Hewitts: 4
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Distance: 57.8 km
Ascent: 3562m
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Distance: 79.3 km
Ascent: 4714m
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Distance: 60.44 km
Ascent: 2797m
Hewitts: 6
Wainwrights 11

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Trips: 8
Distance: 88.83 km
Ascent: 5520m
Hewitts: 5
Wainwrights 13

2017

Trips: 4
Distance: 39.12 km
Ascent: 1979m
Hewitts: 3
Wainwrights 5

2016

Trips: 11
Distance: 114.62 km
Ascent: 6272m
Hewitts: 11
Wainwrights 26

2015

Trips: 4
Distance: 41.08 km
Ascent: 2648m
Hewitts: 7
Wainwrights 9

2014

Trips: 13
Distance: 122.08 km
Ascent: 7257m
Hewitts: 14
Wainwrights 30

2013

Trips: 11
Distance: 111.41 km
Ascent: 5792m
Hewitts: 4
Wainwrights 22

2012

Trips: 12
Distance: 141.86 km
Ascent: 7824m
Hewitts: 9
Wainwrights 19

2011

Trips: 10
Distance: 109.6 km
Ascent: 6371m
Hewitts: 11
Wainwrights 26


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