Starting point: Grasmere  (NY 337076)  Distance: 6.53 miles  Ascent: 1831'  Date: Saturday 25th September 2010

A walk with members of The Wainwright Society.  The weather was glorious for this late September walk.

Route: The walk starts from Heaton Cooper art studios in Grasmere.  Walk up Easedale Road and cross a wooden bridge across Easedale Beck. A well-worn p[ath leads up to Easedale Tarn.  From here take a path that ascends to the left of Blea Crag.  Climb up to the summit of Blea Rigg.  From here follow a winding path along the wide ridge to Silver How.  Descend southwest off the summit to a wall and follow this down through Kelbarrow emerging on to the Red Bank road at Faeryland.  Walk back into Grasmere and the starting point.

Helm Crag seen from the Easedale path

Easedale and the first sight of Sour Milk Gill

It's a beautiful morning

Sour Milk Gill

Helm Crag from the rising path to Easedale Tarn

The ridge to Tarn Crag

The first view of Blea Rigg

Easedale Tarn

Crossing a boggy patch!

The head of Easedale

Close up of Blea Crag

Kevin at the shelter on the summit of Blea Rigg ...

... and me at the cairn

The ridge path to Silver How

Wainwright Society members descend from Blea Rigg

Sunlight on the ridges

Looking back to Blea Rigg along the ridge

The Vale of Grasmere and the Eastern Fells

Society members take a breather

The Langdale Pikes

Sunlight in Great Langdale

The Langdale Pikes again

A lovely mountain tarn

Silver How

Grasmere

Grasmere and Rydal Water

Sunlight and shadows

Team photo

On the descent back to Grasmere

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