| Mellbreak - Route One |
| Start - Loweswater NY 143 212 | Distance - 2 miles | Ascent - 1,520 feet | Time - 1 hour : 35 minutes |
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| The walk starts from the small parking area by the phone box and the lane leading to St Bartholomew's Church and the Kirkstile Inn |
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| Mellbreak from Church Bridge. The lane crosses Park Beck and becomes a walled bridleway passing by Kirkgate Farm heading towards Mosedale |
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| Looking across to Whiteside from the bridleway |
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| Mellbreak from the bridleway |
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| Carling Knott and Burnbank Fell from the bridleway |
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| Looking back to Darling Fell and Low Fell from the bridleway |
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| The bridleway turns right at a gate towards Mosedale. The path to Mellbreak carries straight on through a firebreak in a small plantation of larches |
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| Grasmoor from the top edge of the plantation |
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| Looking up to Mellbreak from the plantation. The path rises across a grass slope and can be seen zig-zagging up the scree slope to a rock "gateway" |
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| The start of the path up the scree slope. The rock gateway can be seen centre right on the skyline |
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| Lorton Vale from the bottom of the scree slope. The Kirkstile Inn and the church can be seen on the left |
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| Darling Fell and Low Fell across the valley |
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| Looking back to Loweswater |
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| Lorton Vale from higher up the path |
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| Hen Comb and Little Dodd across Mosedale |
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| Looking down the scree slope to the path rising from the plantation |
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| Looking across the face of Raven Crag to Whiteside, Hopegill Head and Grasmoor |
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| Looking along Lorton Vale to Graystones |
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| Darling Fell and Low Fell |
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| Blake Fell and Carling Knott |
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| Approaching the rock gateway near the end of the scree slope |
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| The farms of Low Park and High Park at the foot of Mellbreak's north ridge |
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| Looking up the steep north ridge. The whole character of the ascent changes as the path climbs around and over the rocky knolls to the northern top |
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| Carling Knott and Loweswater from the first promontory on the ridge |
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| Crossing the head of the "big gully" which AW noted on his diagram of this ascent |
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| From the second promontory. "a lovely peep around a corner" Mellbreak - page 4 |
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| Whiteside and Hopegill Head from the second promontory |
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| Grasmoor and Whiteless Pike from the second promontory |
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| The upper part of the north ridge from the second promontory |
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| Looking down to the second promontory |
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| The slope eases as the path nears the summit of the north top |
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| The north top's summit cairn comes into view |
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| The south top of Mellbreak, which is the true summit of the fell, lies across a wide depression |
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| Loweswater from the north top |
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| Whiteside, Hopegill Head and Grasmoor End from the north top |
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| Grasmoor, Wandope and Whiteless Pike from the north top |
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| Only small sections of Buttermere and Crummock Water are visible from the north top |
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| Heading off on the path to the south top |
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| Looking back to the heather-clad north top |
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| The summit cairn on the south top of Mellbreak |
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| Looking south-east to Fleetwith Pike at the head of the Buttermere Valley |
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| Great Borne and Gavel Fell to the south-west |
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| Blake Fell and Carling Knott |
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| Looking to the north top, which appears higher though is the lesser summit by a mere 10 feet |
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| Graystones and Whiteside |
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| Grasmoor, Eel Crag, Wadope and Whiteless Pike |
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| By walking a few yards to the south east Crummock Water and Buttermere come into view |
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| High Stile and Red Pike |
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