| Gowbarrow Fell - Route One |
| Start - Park Brow Foot NY 399 199 | Distance - 2.5 miles | Ascent - 1,290 feet | Time - 1 hour : 35 minutes |
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| The Aira Force National Trust car park is the starting point for this walk |
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| A gate at the northern end of the car park gives access to a woodland path alongside Aira Beck |
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| A quarter of a mile from the car park a path descends to cross a footbridge over Aira Beck |
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| Aira Beck from the footbridge |
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| A couple of hundred yards from the footbridge leave the main path, which continues on to Aira Force, by a gate which gives access to the open fellside. This is the start of the Kirkstyle path which traverses across the southern slopes of the fell |
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| Ullswater from the start of the Kirkstyle path |
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| Looking across to Lyulph's Tower |
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| After a few hundred yards of fairly level walking the path forks with the left branch beginning to climb the steep fellside beneath Hind Crag |
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| Ullswater from the path below Hind Crag |
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| Looking across Ullswater to Hallin Fell backed by Bonscale Pike and Loadpot Hill |
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| Looking back down the steep section of the path below Hind Crag |
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| After the first steep section the path continues more evenly up the southern slopes of Green Hill heading towards a prominent cairn above Yew Crag |
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| Looking down on Lyulph's Tower and Ullswater from the slopes of Green Hill |
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| Approaching the cairn above Yew Crag which is accessed via a stile in the fence |
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| The viewpoint cairn above Yew Crag |
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| The lower reaches of Ullswater from Yew Crag |
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| Martindale across Ullswater from Yew Crag |
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| The head of Ullswater from Yew Crag |
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| Rejoining the main path which now begins to turn northwards to traverse across the eastern slopes of Gowbarrow Fell |
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| Looking across Swinburn's Park, the domed top of Little Mell Fell appears over the summit ridge of Little Meldrum |
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| A last look back to the head of Ullswater as the path turns to the north |
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| The path makes a wide sweep around and above the gills and crags on the eastern slope of Gowbarrow Fell which are oddly named Collier Hagg |
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| Looking back along the eastern slopes to Place Fell |
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| Ullswater from the eastern slopes of Gowbarrow Fell |
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| Approaching the terrace path above Collier Hagg |
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| Looking back from Collier Hagg to Place Fell |
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| The terrace path above the ravines of Collierhagg Beck |
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| A prominent tree stands at the end of the terrace. The path continues on towards the remains of the old Shooting Lodge |
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| Looking back along the approach path to the old Shooting Lodge |
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| The remains of the old Shooting Lodge |
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| Ullswater from the ruined shooting lodge |
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| The Kirkstyle path continues on over a wall stile into the woods above Swinburn's Park. The path to the summit of Gowbarrow Fell follows the wall |
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| Little Mell Fell comes into view across the slopes of Great Meldrum as the path approaches the watershed |
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| Airy Crag, the summit of Gowbarrow Fell |
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| Approaching the summit of Gowbarrow Fell |
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| Looking back to Little Mell Fell and Great Meldrum |
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| Great Mell Fell from the summit of Gowbarrow Fell |
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| The view looking south from the summit of Gowbarrow Fell. Place Fell, Little Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, St. Sunday Crag, Fairfield and Seat Sandal form the horizon |
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| Helvellyn on the centre skyline above Sheffield Pike |
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| The view to the west comprises Hart Side, Great Dodd and Clough Head |
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| Skiddaw and Blencathra |
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| Bannerdale Crags and Bowscale Fell on the skyline over Souther Fell with Carrock Fell on the right |
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| Little Mell Fell |
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| The lower reaches of Ullswater |
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| Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike across Ullswater |
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| Loadpot Hill and Wether Hill above Hallin Fell and Steel Knotts |
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| High Raise, Rampsgill Head, High Street, Thornthwaite Crag, Caudale Moor and Place Fell form the skyline |
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