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20 06 2008 - Wether Hill and Loadpot Hill via Steel Knotts

 

I started from Howtown, parking by the side of the road just beyond the cattle grid in front of Hallin Fell. The skies were cloudy all day but there were also long periods of sunshine and only a couple  of brief spasms of rain. The first part of the walk over Steel Knotts was thoroughly enjoyable but the stroll over the flat, grassy tops of Wether Hill and Loadpot Hill proved to be a little uninspiring.

 

The initial climb up Steel End

 

 Ullswater from Steel Knotts

 

Hallin Fell from Steel Knotts

 

 

Fusedale

 

 

 Looking along Steel Knotts to Pikeawassa

 

Pikeawassa looking towards Ullswater

 

Pikeawassa looking towards Blencathra

 

Gowk Hill and The Nab from Steel Knotts

 

Cotton Grass with Gowk Hill behind

 

Crags beneath Loadpot Hill

 

Rampsgill Head and Rest Dodd from Gowk Hill

 

Wether Hill summit looking towards Skiddaw and Blencathra in the distance

 

And the summit again with Fairfield in the distance

 

 Towards Loadpot Hill

 

Wether Hill from the Lowther House remains

 

Loadpot Hill Summit

 

Loadpot Hill trig point

 

Looking across Fusedale from the descent of Loadpot Hill

 

Hallin Fell

 

Footbridge across Fusedale Beck

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