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| Car parking in the hamlet of Garnett Bridge is very limited so we started this walk from a layby on the A6 near Watchgate |
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| A stile over the wall beside the layby gives access to a path which leads down to Garnett Bridge |
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| Ulgraves from the stile |
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| Another stile leads onto the Longsleddale road above Garnett Bridge |
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| Garnett Bridge |
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| The River Sprint from Garnett Bridge |
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| From Garnett Bridge we walk along the Potter Fell Road for almost a third of a mile to a footpath sign |
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| Carl Crag from the footpath |
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| The footpath takes a meandering course through the fields |
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| Fortunately the path is well waymarked as it very indistinct in places as it crosses the fields on the lower slopes |
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| The path begins to make a rising traverse through the fields towards East View Farm |
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| Looking towards Kendal |
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| Appoaching East View Farm |
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| The Whinfell range appears on the horizon |
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| The ruins of East View Farm |
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| The path rises behind the ruins and passes through a waymarked gate |
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| Looking over towards Whinfell Beacon and Grayrigg Common from the waymarked gate |
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| The Howgills on the horizon as the path begins a rising traverse to join a clearer path which comes up from Garnett Bridge |
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| Looking back from the junction with the Garnett Bridge path |
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| Looking down to Garnett Bridge |
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| On the clearer path above East View Farm |
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| Sunlight highlights the Howgill fells |
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| Passing the remains of a stile and an old waymark post |
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| Looking back towards the Whinfell range |
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| Passing another collapsed waymark post on the approach to the Gurnal Dubs access rtrack |
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| Joining the Gurnall Dubs access track |
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| Lookng down the access track towards Benson Knott |
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| On the Gurnal Dub's access track which we will follow for just over one mile |
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| The Howgills from the track |
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| The Kendal Scars over Burneside from the track |
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| Kate has spotted something over to the right ..... |
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| ..... the summit of Ulgraves, our first sighting of it since leaving the A6 road! |
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| Looking back towards Castle Fell, Whinfell Beacon and Grayrigg Common |
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| Benson Knott from the track |
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| The Howgills from the Gurnal Dubs access track |
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| The drystone walls give way to fences as the tack reaches its highest point |
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| A locked gate bars access to unautherised vehicles, a handgate beside it allows passage for pedestrians |
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| Our first sighting of Gurnal Dubs |
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| We descend along the eastern side of Gurnal Dubs |
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| Gurnal Dubs |
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| Tuggleshaw from the eastern side of Gurnal Dubs, Ulgraves lies unseen behind it |
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| We leave the Gurnal Dubs track to cross a stile onto the path to Ulgraves |
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| Looking back to Gurnal Dubs from the path to Ulgraves |
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| After a very dry Spring, Tuggleshaw Middle Tarn has almost disappeared! |
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| The path passes through a handgate from where Ulgraves will come into view |
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| Ulgraves summit ridge appears over the brow of a hill |
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| The path descends to a ford |
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| Tarn Crag, Grey Crag Capplebarrow, White How and The Forest from the descent to the ford |
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| The ford under Ulgraves |
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| Looking back to Tuggleshaw from the ford |
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| Climbing the south western slopes of Ulgraves |
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| The head of Longsleddale from the climb to Ulgraves |
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| Approaching the summit of Ulgraves |
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| The summit cairn on Ulgraves |
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| Looking south-east from the summit of Ulgraves, Whernside and Gragareth are on the distant horizon. The white house on the extreme cente left is next to the layby where we started the walk |
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| Benson Knott from the summit of Ulgraves |
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| Looking west to Tuggleshaw with Coniston Old Man on the distant horizon |
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| Brunt Knott, the other Wainwright Outlier on Potter Fell, on the centre horizon |
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| Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street and Kentmere Pike over Green Quarter Fell and Cocklaw Fell |
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| The head of Longsleddale from the summit of Ulgraves |
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| Branstree, Tarn Crag, Arncrow Brow and Capplebarrow from the summit of Ulgraves |
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| Great Yarlside, White Howe andThe Forest, over Whiteside Pike |
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| Ashstead Fell, Mabbin Crag and Castle Fell from the summit of Ulgraves |
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| The Howgill Fells from the summit of Ulgraves |
