21st May 2008

Today's walk: The Crookdale Horseshoe (Wainwright's Outlying Fells p254)


High House Bank from the A6


AW starts the walk through this farmyard but it is now active and PRIVATE


looking back at the A6 layby and the forbidden path from the old road


Hause Foot (not lived in when AW was here)


looking back at Hause Foot with the A6 above


looking up the lower part of Crookdale


3 strands of barbed wire at AW's crossing place ..


.. but an easy spot higher up the hillside with Robin Hood ahead


Robin Hood on the other side of the valley


Crookdale and Great Yarlside


Great Yarlside from the other side of Crookdale Beck


Lord's Seat, now with an embryo cairn, looking to Grey Crag and Tarn Crag


looking down Borrowdale from the top of Lord's Seat


zooming in down Borrowdale


the beacon on Robin Hood looking to High House Bank


looking back to Robin Hood from the slopes of High House Bank


panoramic shot of Borrowdale and Crookdale from the same spot


zooming in on the sinuous course of Crookdale Beck


looking down on High House farm


the cairn on High House Bank looking down Borrowdale


Borrowdale Head from High House Bank


zooming in on Borrowdale Head


AW's "(not obvious)" and rather awkward stile


my car on the old road with the A6 and the forbidden path beyond


the gateway where the forbidden path emerges on the old road


the unfriendly farmer here has failed to notice that red ink fades?


I sneaked over the bridge to get AW's lead picture of High House Bank


and the walk in boggy Crookdale ended with dry feet and clean boots!