| Carron Crag - Route One |
| Start - Dodgson Wood SD 299 927 | Distance - 3.5 miles | Ascent - 1,180 feet | Time - 1 hour : 55 minutes |
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| The National Trust car park in Dodgson Wood on the eastern side of Coniston Water is the starting point for this walk |
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| A broad track leaves the back of the car park |
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| The track ends at Wrostlers Barn, a camping bothy. The path continues on to the right of the barn |
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| Beacon Fell across Coniston Water from Wrostlers Barn |
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| Looking back on Wrostlers Barn |
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| Behind the barn a gate and stile lead onto a waymarked path through the oak trees of Dodgson Wood. The wood is a site of special scientific interest(SSSi) which is particularly noted for its wide variety of fungi |
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| The white waymark posts lead up to a stile and gate at the top of the wood |
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| The path continues up beside a wall and eventually joins a rough track which begins from High Nibthwaite and climbs to Low Parkamoor |
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| Looking over to Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man from the path above Dodgson Wood |
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| Low Parkamoor comes into view as the path approaches the High Nibthwaite track |
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| Looking over towards Caw, White Maiden and Dow Crag |
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| Approaching Low Parkamoor on the High Nibthwaite track |
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| Low Parkamoor |
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| Top o' Selside from Low Parkamoor |
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| Beyond Low Parkamoor the track continues northwards over the rocky knolls of The Park |
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| Looking back to Top o' Selside from The Park track |
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| Over to the right the summit of Carron Crag appears above the trees of the Grizedale Forest |
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| Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man from Park Crags |
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| As the track approaches its highest point Helvellyn and the Fairfield group of fells come into view |
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| The middle reaches of Coniston Water from The Park track |
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| Dow Crag, Coniston Old Man, Swirl How and Wetherlam across Coniston Water from The Park track |
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| The track begins to descend towards the Grizedale Forest |
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| The track ends at a gate in the forest fence where a path continues on through a firebreak |
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| The path gradually descends for half a mile until it reaches a major forest road, there are two options at that point. Either turn left and follow the forest roads to approach Carron Crag from the north, or turn right for a slightly shorter approach from the south |
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| We turned right on the forest road and Carron Crag soon came into view to the north-east across a clearing in the forest |
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| It's just a matter of following the forest roads turning left at each of three junctions, which are about a third of a mile apart, to circle around and approach Carron Crag from the south |
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| Heading along the forest road from the second junction |
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| A hundred yards past the third junction a path turns off through the trees towards Carron Crag |
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| The path to Carron Crag |
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| As the path climbs up towards 17 Degrees South, one of the many sculptures in Grizedale Forest, the summit of Carron Crag comes into view |
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| Carron Crag from 17 Degrees South |
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| Approaching the summit of Carron Crag |
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| The summit of Carron Crag |
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| The view south to the Leven Estuary |
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| Top o' Selside from the summit of Carron Crag |
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| Black Combe, Buck Barrow and Whit Fell on the horizon |
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| Caw, White Maiden, Dow Crag and Coniston Old Man |
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| Swirl How and Wetherlam with the Langdale Pikes in the centre horizon |
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| The Far Eastern Fells in the centre and right, with Dove Crag and Red Screes on the left |
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