Sallows - Route One

 

Start - Church Bridge NY 411 026 Distance - 2.7 miles Ascent - 1,325 feet Time - 1 hour : 40 minutes

 

 

The small informal car park by Church Bridge is the starting point for this walk
The start of the Garburn Road a few hundred yards south of Church Bridge
The road rises steeply between high walls as it  passes behind the buildings of The Howe
After climbing a few hundred feet the view opens out to the Ill Bell ridge
The road is an old packhorse trade route between Troutbeck and Kentmere
Gaining height above Troutbeck Park
Looking back to Windermere from just above the point where the Dubbs Road joins the Garburn Road
The gate below the disused Applethwaite Quarry
Looking back to the tree shrouded Applethwaite Quarry
Looking over the edge of the road to Troutbeck Park
Windermere from above Applethwaite Quarry
Red Screes and St. Raven's Edge leading to Caudale Moor.  The objective, Sallows, does not appear until the summit of the road is almost reached so the main interest of the walk is the views over the Troutbeck valley
The Tongue backed by Caudale Moor
Looking across the valley to the long ridge of Wansfell
The Coniston fells
Getting near the summit of the road
A closer view of Red Screes
The top of the road is just beyond the small plantation of conifers
At the top end of the plantation a simple stile gives access to the open fellside
A faint path over tussocky grass climbs directly from the stile, or more easily follow the wall to gain the ridge line west of the summit
Looking back from the climb by the wall to the Garburn Road
The slope above the wall from the small outcrops of rocks AW mentioned in his notes on the summit
Approaching the summit
The "curious" summit mound   Sallows - page 3
Windermere to the south-west
Sour Howes across the upper valley of Park Beck
The Coniston fells
Wansfell Pike backed by Crinkle Crags
Red Screes
Caudale Moor
Due north, the ridge leading toYoke rising from the summit of the Garburn Road
Buck Crag with Harter Fell on the centre skyline
Castle Crag with Kentmere Pike on the leftward skyline
 

 
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