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" Rannerdale Knotts - with Paula and Tom "

Date & start time:      28th / 29th September and other walks.

Location of Start :     Hause Point car park, Crummock, Cumbria, Uk. ( NY 163 183)

Places visited :           Rannerdale Knotts, Sandy Yat / High Park and Mellbreak.

Main walk details :     2.3 miles, 915 ft of ascent, 1 hours 40 mins.

Highest point :           Rannerdale Knotts, 1160ft - 335m.

Walked with :              Paula, Tom myself and the dogs, Dylan and Dougal.

Weather :                     Overcast and very windy, rain over the high fells some days.

                     

                     

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I'm back in Loweswater and no sooner that I say goodbye to Hilton my dog sitter whilst I was away,

than a planed visit from my daughter is marked as imminent on my Loweswatercam Calendar.

Tom will be here for the weekend too. 

He's over for a few weeks from Australia and is trying to go everywhere and catch up with everyone during his short visit.

He wanted to climb a fell, and Paula wanted to climb Rannerdale to remember Mum, so Rannerdale Knotts it was.

Grab a waterproof as it's windy and cool, but hopefully the rain will stay away in the high fells for the duration of our walk.

So windy they felt they had to hold the dogs down . . . either that or their using the dogs as anchors for themselves !

That's where we're heading . . . I wonder how strong the wind will be up there ?

The view up the Buttermere Valley as we climb the end of Rannerdale Knotts.

The look back at Crummock and distant Loweswater . . . all looking a bit grey today.

Well it is windy up here but I think the earlier blast must have been a squall as the top is quite pleasant.

Dougal hangs around for a summit photo.

Walking Low Bank past the second knott of Rannerdale, the sun-bursts crossing the valley are delightful.

Those fast moving clouds are gradually clearing across the sky

and so our trip back down the Squat Beck Valley behind Rannerdale was achieved with ever improving weather.

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The following day we had a shorter walk, this time down to Crummock and looked back at Rannerdale where we were yesterday.

The weather was much the same as this sun-bursts through the cloud brought a nice sparkle on the water at the head of the lake.

Tom and Paula . . . up in the Lakes for a brief weekend.

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Another view of Rannerdale

(do you like the way I've brought the themes together ?)

as the dogs and I have a slightly more strenuous daily outing

This time up onto Mellbreak.

 

This is the point about two thirds of the way up

which Mr Wainwright called

"a peep around the corner"

where you get a first view of the whole valley.

 

The dogs have sat here quite often for photos that they

took the short diversion off the main climb themselves.

 

 

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Sunshine on Hopegill Head as I look across Peel Headland and over to Grasmoor.

Coming down the traverse path on the Mosedale side of the fell the colours were quite different.

Not too many photos today as I've been here so many times before.

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At this same time I received this lovely photo from web site viewers on their recent holiday in this part of The Lakes.

Good evening Roger,

We’re off tomorrow — Oxford for a day, and then Heathrow to Canada, where potatoes and carrots are waiting to be dug and garlic is due to be planted. 

Our final week in The Lakes was a bit of a mixed bag, with rain and not-rain, and one day when the wind was so powerful we couldn't get up Barrow.

You had asked for our impressions of the Swinside Inn, but since the licence is being transferred to new people on Monday, I presume things will be different in the near future. I'm sending this photograph of Swinside Inn caught in a ray of sunshine (see above).

Thanks again for you warm familial welcome, and especially for your website which will continue to transport us through the wonderful Lake District even when we can’t be there in person.

David and Cathryn Miller and a well-known Bear

 

Beeston watching Storm Agnes from the Kirkstile.

 

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Technical note: Pictures taken with my iPhone 11pro mobile phone camera.

Resized in Photoshop, and built up on a Dreamweaver web builder.

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Previous walks - 11th - 23rd Sept 2023 - Holland and Germany

A previous time up here - 19th July 2021 - Farewell To Ann Walk

Next walk - 2nd Oct 2023 - Lingholm and Local

 

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