A Blog by the Wild and Woolly Walker.
We were actually aiming for the summit of Pike O’Blisco (myself, Dan, my mum and dad)…however, we knew the wind was still pretty strong (mainly because we could hear it outside of our cottage!) so our plan was to head over to Lingmoor Fell and see how we felt about going as high as Pike O’Blisco.
From Chapel Stile, we started on the dis-used old road that runs through the Langdale Valley. We turned towards Thrang Farm and then through Baysbrown Wood up to to dis-used quarries on Lingmoor Fell (here you can see an entrance to one of the old mines, although I wasn’t brave to go inside and neither was my mum). This was a good footpath, and not too steep.
Once on top of Lingmoor Fell, it quickly became evident that the wind was too strong (about 75-80mph) and going any higher was out of the question! All four of us were struggling in the wind. Lingmoor Fell is only 469 meters and we were nearly getting blown over at this height. To go another 250 meters up was out of the question!
Instead, we were much more comfortable taking a walk through the Valley. We descended Lingmoor Fell down to Blea Tarn where Dan captured some stunning images.
Afterwards, we decided a visit to Little Langdale was in order…and of course to the pub! So we followed the road to the Little Langdale Tarn and then met the footpath to go around the tarn. On a side note, if you carry on along this footpath you can have a sneak peak at Cathedral Quarry). We then look a left turn to go over Slaters Bridge…a beautiful old stone bridge. We then meandered through Little Langdale to the Three Shires Inn where we stopped for a drink….or two (the second was needed to over a heavy downpour outside).
We set off from the pub and joined the footpath from Little Langdale to Elterwater where Dan managed to capture a wonderful image of Wetherlam and then the Langdale Pikes from Elterwater Common.
The last leg of the walk was to head up the River Brathay back to Chapel Stile. A perfect walk for those still wanting to venture out when the weather doesn’t allow a high level hiking.
All the images in this blog are available as high quality prints for you to enjoy in your own home from the Lake District Print Collection.