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Remembrance Sunday and over a week without a walk due to a combination of bad weather and not feeling well. Gone are days of visiting Gable for the Fell & Rock Climbing service of remembrance, our last visit was in 2005 before this website was started. Even Ingleborough is now very doubtfull. However after first stopping off at the Cenotaph on Morecambe promenade we made our way to Beckstones above Torver where we left the car to walk the route shown below. Again we are revisiting paths last trodden by us around 15 years ago and today I think we saw the area at very near its best.

The Route....Map turned 90degrees to fit.

Anne Riggs from where we left the car.

Our outward leg would follow the track of the Cumbria Way. For information on the Cumbria Way click HERE.

The path initally descends to follow the shores of Coniston Water

Ooops!!.....I wonder what happened here.

Sections of the path were a little muddy and slippy today after a week of rain.

A well laden Holly makes a nice foreground for a view across the water.

There was a bit of a NNE'ly breeze which made the day cooler than of late but comfortable just in the fleeces.

The path is now more or less at waterside level and is wider and less muddy.

This will be our way back, but first we will carry on N'wards a little

The Coniston Launch comes in to land passengers.

After discharging one lady who approached the dip in the landing stage rather gingerly the launch leaves.

A variety of vessels at Hoathwaite

But how to reach them!....The water level after all the recent rain is well above normal

Coniston tops

The Old Man

Canada Geese on Coniston Water

Approaching Coniston Hall.

Coniston Hall, formerly a private house, dating back to the late 16th Century is a Grade II listed building

Now owned by the National Trust part of it is used as a farmhouse, part by the sailing club and part is ruined. I love those chimneys!

Sunlight and shadows on the Coniston Fells. From Coniston Hall we made our way back to the signpost shown earlier.

The path leads back to Torver. We however would leave it on an unsigned path after about 0.4miles to ascend on the left to Torver Back Common.

The path to Torver is now below us as we ascend to Torver Back Common with the views starting to open up.

There are a number of paths along and across the common. Plenty to explore and fantastic views.

Looking down on Long Moss, certainly best avoided after the recent heavy rain

The views to the Coniston Fells from here are gorgeous and today with the moving clouds were constantly changing.

We had come over the high ground to the left and crossed Long Moss which can be seen below

Yup....it's them Conistons again

Kelly Hall Tarn....what a wonderful spot to bring the little ones and only a few minutes from the road.

The path from the tarn comes out near the Land Rover garage and a couple of minutes down the road takes us back to the car.

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