Fellbarrow - Route One

 

Start - Waterend NY 117 224 Distance - 2 miles Ascent - 970 feet Time - 1 hour : 15 minutes

 

 

Waterend is the starting point for this walk.  There is lay-by parking either side of the telephone box
Almost opposite the telephone box a lane leads up to Myersike and Askill which is also a bridleway to the Mosser Fell Road
Walking up the Miresyke/Askill lane, Darling Fell appears straight ahead with Askill Knott to the left
Looking over to Loweswater from the lane with Mellbreak on the left and Carling Knott on the right
A short distance after the lane bears left to Askill the bridleway turns off to the right onto a track bounded by a fence and a wall
Looking back to Loweswater from the bridleway track
Higher up, the bridleway passes through two fields above Askill Farm as it approaches the Mosser Fell Road
Looking back to Loweswater from the lower field
An old abandoned Bamford Mower in the upper field
The mower has been sitting here for years and its wheels and cutting blades have become embedded in the turf
Looking back to Carling Knott and Burnbank Fell from the top of the upper field
The bridleway joins the Mosser Fell Road where the view ..........
..........opens out towards the coast
Looking back to Darling Fell (centre) and Askill Knott (right) from the Mosser Fell Road
 A third of a mile along the Mosser Fell Road a lane, which branches off to the right, reaches the open fellside below Sourfoot Fell.  This is best avoided as it is invariably flooded
Mosser Fell (Fellbarrow) from the Mosser Fell Road
Three hundred yards beyond the flooded branch lane the Mosser Fell Road begins to descend and a rough track leads down towards Mosser Beck
The track passes through a gate and crosses Mosser Beck but soon peters out on the open pasture above the beck
Fellbarrow from Mosser Beck
Looking across to Darling Fell and Carling Knott from the end of the track
A faint path leads up to the foot of the south-west slope of Fellbarrow.  It becomes much clearer as it slants diagonally left through an area of gorse
The path through the gorse
The summit of Low Fell appears over the col between Sourfoot Fell and Darling Fell
Looking back to the Mosser Fell Road
Looking over to the summits of Great Borne, Blake Fell and Burnbank Fell
Beyond the area of gorse an open grass slope leads up towards the summit ridge
Criffel across the Solway Firth
High Stile and Red Pike appear over the summit ridge
The summit of Grasmoor comes into view on the approach to the summit ridge
After a 450 ft. climb from the rough track over Mosser Beck the summit ridge comes into view
Looking back down to the Mosser Fell Road
Whiteside and Grasmoor over the summit ridge
Looking over to Blake Fell, Burnbank Fell and Owsen Fell
The summit of Fellbarrow comes into view
Approaching the summit of Fellbarrow
The trig column and cairn on the summit of Fellbarrow
Looking north-east to Binsey
Skiddaw above the Whinlatter fells
Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Whiteside and Grasmoor
Looking south along the connecting ridge to Low Fell.  High Crag, High Stile and Red Pike on the centre skyline with Fleetwith Pike and Great Gable above Haystacks on the left
Starling Dodd and Great Borne beyond the summit cone of Hen Comb.  On the left the twin tops of Mellbreak over the summit of Low Fell
Blake Fell from the summit of Fellbarrow

 

 

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