| Great Mell Fell - Route One |
| Start - Brownrigg Farm NY 407 247 | Distance - 1 mile | Ascent - 900 feet | Time - 50 minutes |
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| A rough surfaced lane located one mile north east from Matterdale End is the starting point of this walk. There is limited parking beside the lane end |
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| Ignore the first gate/stile beside the National Trust sign, it only gives access to a path which makes a circuit of the fell. Continue on to a second gate/stile which is about 180 yards from the start of the lane |
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| Over the stile the path climbs beside a fence beneath mixed deciduous woodland |
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| Looking left from the path to St. Sunday Crag and Fairfield framed between the slopes of Gowbarrow Park and Watermillock Common |
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| Looking back along the path to Little Mell Fell |
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| Past the deciduous trees a path branches off to right climbing steeply towards the south east ridge of the fell |
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| Looking back to a distant Helvellyn with Hart Side and Stybarrow Dodd on the right |
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| The Pennines across the Eden Valley |
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| Hart Crag, St. Sunday Crag and Fairfield |
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| Looking across Matterdale Common to Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd and Great Dodd |
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| Clough Head |
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| Halfway up the south east ridge the path approaches an old plantation of Scots Pine |
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| Looking back to Little Mell Fell |
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| Looking across to Helvellyn |
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| There is a choice of paths through the Scots Pine, the most popular one passes through the western edge of the plantation |
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| Looking back towards Place Fell and Red Screes in thedistance |
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| The Far Eastern Fells across the Great Meldrum ridge |
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| Leaving the Scots Pines behind and looking back to Little Mell Fell and Little Meldrum backed by Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike |
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| Approaching the summit |
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| The summit of Great Mell Fell |
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| Looking north west to Souther Fell, Bowscale Fell and Carrock Fell |
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| The Pennines across the Eden Valley |
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| Little Mell Fell and Arthur's Pike |
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| On the skyline - Wether Hill, High Raise, Rampsgill Head, High Street and Thornthwaite Crag |
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| Looking to Place Fell and Red Screes |
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| The Fairfield group of fells on the left with Helvellyn on the right |
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| Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd and Great Dodd |
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| Clough Head with the North Western Fells on the right |
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| Blencathra |
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