Carrock Fell - Route One |
| Start - Stone Ends NY 353 337 | Distance - 1.15 miles | Ascent - 1,400 feet | Time - 1 hour : 10 minutes |
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| Setting off from the site of the old Carrock End Mine. The line of ascent, known as Rake Trod, can be seen rising leftwards below the crags |
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| Looking towards Great Mell Fell from the start of the climb |
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| Approaching the start of Rake Trod |
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| On Rake Trod |
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| Looking over to Berrier Hill from near the top of Rake Trod |
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| At the end of the Trod the path levels off as it approaches the steep gully of Further Gill Sike |
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| Looking back to the starting point from the top of Rake Trod |
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| Looking up the gully of Further Gill Sike which is the steepest part of this ascent |
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| Stone End Farm from the bottom of the gully |
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| The Pennines on the horizon from halfway up the gully |
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| Looking back from the top of the gully |
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| Looking across the heather covered lower plateau of Carrock Fell from the top of the gully |
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| The path continues on from the top of the gully and climbs steadily towards the summit ridge |
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| Looking over to the east ridge of Bowscale Fell |
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| Higher up, Blencathra appears over the summit of Bowscale Fell |
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| Passing the sheepfold near the 1800ft contour that AW shows on his diagram of this ascent |
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| Approaching the east peak on the summit ridge |
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| The summit of Carrock Fellfrom the east peak |
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| Looking back on the route of ascent from the east peak |
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| The Pennines from the east peak |
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| The summit from the large tumulus on the ridge |
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| The summit of Carrock Fell |
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| The summit cairn from the south Carrock Fell - page 10 |
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| The Far Eastern fells over the east ridge of Bowscale Fell |
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| The Helvellyn group over Bowscale Fell's east summit |
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| Blencathra over Bowscale Fell |
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| Great Gable and Pillar appear over the notch of the Glenderaterra valley |
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| Skiddaw and the Valley of the River Caldew |
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| Knott, the highest of the fells north of Skiddaw |
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| The connecting ridge to High Pike |
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| Looking back to the east peak and the distant Pennines |
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