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Walking Lakeland Tarns Vol I West - English Lake District, UK

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Cover
Paperback - Laminated
Published
1 Jan 1995
Edition
First
ISBN
9781852841713
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ISBN (10)
1852841710
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm
Weight
260g
Pages
240
No. Maps
66
No. Photos
0
Originally Published
1 Jan 1995

The Tarns of Lakeland Vol 1: West

by John Nuttall, Anne Nuttall

The western part of this two-volume guidebook gives 42 walking routes to all the 140 or so tarns in the western English Lake District, Cumbria, UK. Covers Whinlatter and Newlands, Buttermere and Ennerdale, Borrowdale, Wasdale, Eskdale, Langdale, Little Langdale, the Duddon Valley, Coniston and Furness. More...

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Seasons

Any time of the year

Centres

Keswick, Ennerdale, Gosforth and Wast Water, Eskdale and Boot, Seathwaite, Torver, Broughton in Read More... Furness and Coniston

Difficulty

A range of routes from half- to full-days covering high and lower fells. Great even if there were Read More... no tarns there.

Must See

Devoke Water is the largest; Little Langdale Tarn is the publisher's favourite; but do you know Read More... Lookingstead Tarn?
 
 

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Walk 5.3: Great How and Burnmoor Tarn


Tarns: Stony Tarn, Great How Tarns, Burnmoor Tarn, Eel Tarn
Distance:
6 miles
Ascent:
1600ft
Summary:
Past Stony Tarn to the secret tarns of Great How. Much of the route is over rough, pathless felltops and an ability to use map and compass is essential.
Starting point:
(GR 190010) Woolpack Inn, Eskdale, 1 mile east of Boot. Please obtain permission if you are leaving your car at the inn.

Route Description - Stony Tarn

Though Stony Tarn is not the easiest of tarns to find, the old packhorse track from the Woolpack Inn sets you well on the way. Taking the public footpath to Burnmoor and Wasdale Head, go left of the inn and climb the grassy strip behind the buildings to a gate onto the fellside. About 100 yards beyond, leave the main path and fork right through the bracken. After heading eastwards at first, the stony path then turns away from the Eskdale valley up a re-entrant, and as the ground becomes boggy the path almost vanishes. Continuing northwards, the little cairned peak of Whin Crag, which lies above Stony Tarn, soon appears on the skyline and the path takes on a new lease of life.

Blea Beck tumbles into a boggy valley below, and further east are the cliffs of Goat Crag. The beck, which issues from the tarn, is an unerring guide, though the path keeps well to the left with cliffs rising above the far bank. As we climbed towards the tarn one evening, a runner accompanied by two dogs sped past us, then as we met the beck above the falls, where the path crosses to the other side, a third dog came into view. The small black terrier was soaking wet and obviously tired, but it splashed through the stream and on down the hillside with a determined expression.

A rocky knoll with a perched boulder crowns the summit of Peelplace Noddle and the tarn is soon reached in its remote setting of rocky knolls beneath shattered cliffs. Surrounded by rough slopes and pathless grassy banks, Stony Tarn sees few walkers for it is not really on the way to anywhere….

 
 
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