With Sophie. We got into the Lakes a bit late for any sort of long walk so this little hill seemed a nice plan. It was walking up here from Windermere Station that gave Wainwright a first view of the Lakeland Fells that inspired his lifetime’s work writing about them and he includes it in his Outlying Fells. Wainwright’s directions there are not much use as the way he takes is not now a right of way. Round the corner to the east of the hotel there is a signposted permissive path starting through a gate where a sign warns one of the presence and possibly aggressive behaviour of bulls and nursing cows one is liable to meet beyond it. We went through this and up a couple of fields beyond it, without a cow anywhere in sight to reach the woods where the well signposted path took us very easily to the top. Then still more easily down by the right of way down the much more crowded path then track that leads back to the road just west of the hotel. Even on a slightly overcast day, the view was everything Wainwright says but alas a fault in my camera means you need to take my word for it.
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