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30th January 2010 - Place Fell

Walk Details

Distance walked: 7.9 miles

Total ascent: 2567 ft

OS map used: OL5 - The English Lakes, North-eastern area

Time taken: 5.5 hrs

Route description: Patterdale-Side Farm-Boredale Hause-Place Fell-High Dodd-Sleet Fell-Sandwick-Ullswater path-Side Farm-Patterdale

I set off from Patterdale and made my way down the track to Side Farm before heading for the summit of Place Fell via Boredale Hause. From the summit I headed for High Dodd and Sleet Fell and then down to Sandwick before heading back to Patterdale by the Ullswater path.

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Nethermost Pike at the top of Grisedale from the start of the path up to Boredale Hause
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Brotherswater below the Kirkstone Pass with Caudale Moor to the left and Red Screes to the right
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Birkhouse Moor above Patterdale
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Dove Crag, Hart Crag and St Sunday Crag with the ridge of Hartsop-above-How enclosing Deepdale
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Higher up, Helvellyn and Catstye Cam come into view above Birkhouse Moor
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Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Fairfield and St Sunday Crag
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St Sunday Crag and Helvellyn
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Helvellyn and Catstye Cam above Birkhouse Moor. Raise to the right.
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St Sunday Crag and Helvellyn with Grisedale between
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​Almost at the top. The Helvellyn range across Patterdale.
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Brotherswater and the fells around the Kirkstone Pass
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The summit of Place Fell. The hill to the right of the trig column is Loadpot Hill. The snow covered North Pennines in the distance.
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Helvellyn from the summit of Place Fell
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and again
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Helvellyn, Catstye Cam, Whiteside, Raise with Stybarrow Dodd across the Sticks Pass. Glenridding below across Ullswater.
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Place Fell summit looking to the Pennines in the distance
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High Street and the far eastern fells
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Helvellyn, Catstye Cam, Whiteside, Raise and Stybarrow Dodd
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Descending northwards, the foot of Ullswater comes into view and the fells around Martindale
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Lower down with High Dodd ahead
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On High Dodd. More of Ullswater visible. Hallin Fell dead centre obscuring part of Ullswater.
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Blencathra in the distance
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Heading down for Sleet Fell
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Hallin Fell behind the cairn on Sleet Fell
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Almost back in Patterdale. The sun is setting behind St Sunday Crag.

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