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Walk 1r - Silver How- 13th Feb 2022 |
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Wainwright's Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells - Book 3 The Central Fells |
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Silver How (revisit) |
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Distance |
2.8 miles |
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Time |
2 hrs |
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Lowest Point |
223 ft |
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Highest Point |
1293 ft |
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Total Ascent |
1100 ft |
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Walk Rating - easy |
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Mini Route Map Go to start on OS map
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| 16.13 Walking up the path near Allan Bank with Helm Crag across the valley. |
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| 16.26 Panorama 696 Looking across the valley to Seat Sandal and the western arm of the Fairfield Horseshoe. | ||
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| 16.27 Great Rigg and Stone Arthur on the other side of the valley. |
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| 16.40 Half way through the modest ascent | ||
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| 16.42 Loughrigg on the other side of Grasmere. | ||
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| 16.44 Helm Crag to the north. | ||
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| 16.52 Summit in sight. | ||
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| 17.05 Rydal Water and Grasmere from the summit | ||
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| 17.06 Looking north towards Helvellyn |
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| 17.07 Panorama 697 Summit panorama looking east | ||
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| 17.18 Panorama 698 I walked thirty yards or so south to improve the view for the westward panorama. |
A lovely name for a lovely fell : Silver How is delightful. |
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Alfred Wainwright - The Central Fells - Silver How |
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| 17.31 We took the steeper scramble to the south east before rejoining the main pitched path down. | ||
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| 17.56 Just a few minutes above the road at Wray Gill. | ||
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| A couple of days later we found the house that I stayed in when I first walked up Silver How and Skiddaw in around 1970. Lea Cottage belonged to Nigel Roberts' grandmother and is on the back road around Grasmere only half a mile from the bottom of today's walk. The distinctive location of the post box made it easy to identify for sure. |
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