Black Fell via Tarn Hows - Saturday 9 November 2013
Route
Park Coppice - Coniston Hall - Coniston - Low Yewdale - Tarn Hows - Iron Keld - Black Crag - Iron Keld - Tarn Hows - Low Yewdale - Coniston - Coniston Hall - Park Coppice
Parking
We started the walk from the Caravan Site at Park Coppice but the walk can leave from the centre of Coniston where there is plenty of parking.
Mileage
13.6 miles (approx 4 miles shorter from Coniston)
Terrain
Good paths throughout
Weather
Outward route - sunny & overcast yet cold. Inward route - pouring rain.
Time Taken
6hrs
Total Ascent
2824ft (861m)
Wainwrights
1
Map
OL6 - The English Lakes (South Western Area)
Walkers
Dave, Angie & Fudge
Park Coppice - Coniston Hall - Coniston - Low Yewdale - Tarn Hows - Iron Keld - Black Crag - Iron Keld - Tarn Hows - Low Yewdale - Coniston - Coniston Hall - Park Coppice
Parking
We started the walk from the Caravan Site at Park Coppice but the walk can leave from the centre of Coniston where there is plenty of parking.
Mileage
13.6 miles (approx 4 miles shorter from Coniston)
Terrain
Good paths throughout
Weather
Outward route - sunny & overcast yet cold. Inward route - pouring rain.
Time Taken
6hrs
Total Ascent
2824ft (861m)
Wainwrights
1
Map
OL6 - The English Lakes (South Western Area)
Walkers
Dave, Angie & Fudge
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Route Map
Leaving Coniston on The Cumbria Way.
The building here is actually a Dog House and was built by the owners of the Monk Coniston Estate to provide the Coniston Fox Hounds with a home.
The building here is actually a Dog House and was built by the owners of the Monk Coniston Estate to provide the Coniston Fox Hounds with a home.
Looking to Wetherlam & Holme Fell
The Tarn Hows Monster
Arriving at Tarn Hows
We were heading for Iron Keld
Entering the Iron Keld plantation........
......... as can be seen from the National Trust sign at the entrance
Looking into Great Langdale from the ascent of Black Fell. Lingmoor Fell is in the foreground, Bowfell in cloud with the Langdale Pikes to the right.
The summit of Black Fell.
Whilst the NT sign says "Black Crag" this is the name of the rocky outcrop the Trig Point stands on. Wainwright said of the scratched initials on the sign that they were done by "visitors of the type who seem to see in this practice a chance of immortality. It must readily be conceded that, for people of such mentality, probably it is their only chance" - Black Fell 3
Whilst the NT sign says "Black Crag" this is the name of the rocky outcrop the Trig Point stands on. Wainwright said of the scratched initials on the sign that they were done by "visitors of the type who seem to see in this practice a chance of immortality. It must readily be conceded that, for people of such mentality, probably it is their only chance" - Black Fell 3
Windermere from the south east cairn
Iron Keld, Tarn Hows & Coniston Water from Black Fell
Looking to the Coniston Fells
Looking to the summit of Black Fell from the south east cairn
The South East Cairn which gives a grand view over Windermere