An easy walk to the summit of Place Fell.  The interest on this walk was the development of the new pitched path on the upper section of the walk.  A helicopter was delivering bags of stone from nearby Bannerdale.  On another visit a digger had been improving the lower section of path using the 'soil inversion' technique.

Route: Starting from Patterdale school, walk across fields to Side Farm.  Walk through the farm and passing through a gate, take the upper fell side track to Boredale Hause.  This path zig-zags up the fell in its upper reaches.  This is the original line of the path, which emerges on to the Hause by a ruined building, the 'Chapel in the Hause' named on 1:25000 OS maps.  A newly- constructed path leads to the summit of Place Fell.  Reverse the line of ascent to return to Patterdale.

Side Farm
Refreshments may be purchased here

Looking back towards Patterdale from the path to Boredale Hause

Looking up the dale towards Kirkstone Pass

The remains of The Chapel in the Hause

The lower path has been improved using the 'soil inversion' method
On an earlier visit, a man in a digger was busy at work on the new path (see below)

The new path zig-zags up the fell side

As the ground steepens, stone pitching is used to repair the worn out path
Here bags of stone have been dropped by helicopter

The first viewpoint - Round How

The summit comes into view

We made it!

On the way down, we were lucky enough to view the helicopter delivering bags of stone on to Place Fell.  This stone had been gathered by hand from a scree slope in nearby Bannerdale.  This is expensive work, the chopper coming from Inverness to perform the shuttle service!  The workers are all volunteers.
A sequence of photographs showing a 'drop'.

The helicopter flies in with a load

Lowering the load to the waiting volunteers

Having safely delivered the load the helicopter is away to Bannerdale for another bag

All the bags have been loaded in advance as 'time is money'!

This new path is being laid as part of the 'Fix the Fells' project

The volunteeers who complete this work

Stone pitching work in progress

As the weather has improved, it's a good place for a rest
This seat was placed here in 1897!

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