Starting point: Patterdale Church  (NY 393162)  Distance: 2.57 miles  Ascent: 1000'

A February walk from Patterdale church to the summit of Arnison Crag.  Snow still lingers on the highest tops as Lakeland is still in the grips of a snowy winter.

Route: From Patterdale church, walk along the main road (A592) to the Patterdale Hotel.  Walk through the car park and behind the main building pass through a 'kissing gate' to join a clear path leading to Glenamara Park (formerly known as Glemara Park).  Do not enter the park, but turn up the fell following a wall before striking up the fell to the summit rocks.  Here there is a five view of Ullswater and the surrounding fells.  Retrace your steps to the gate and enter Glenamara Park.  Walk through the park, crossing Hag Beck and join the minor road coming from Grisedale and walk downhill back to the road.  Find a footpath which skirts a playing field to enter the churchyard and the starting point.

Arnison Crag seen from the boat station in Glenridding

Looking south east towards Patterdale

mute swan

View of Ullswater from Oxford Crag

Cloud obscures the top of Sheffield Pike

Arnison Crag on the ascent

Beattie has a rest!

Ullswater

The Far Eastern fells

Close up of Red Screes ...

... and Caudale Moor

Hartsop in the valley below

Dove Crag

Ullswater from the summit rocks

Beattie at the summit of Arnison Crag

Catstycam seen through the gap between Birks and St Sunday Crag

Link Cove

The wall snakes its way down the fell!

It's amazing where trees will grow!

Glenamara Park was an old medieval deer park

Beattie has a drink in Hag Beck after her walk!

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Photographs taken with a Fuji MX-2900 Zoom or a Canon EOS 20D
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