The weatherman on Radio Cumbria was promising a decent day today as we got ready this morning so we were soon away and parked up at the Glen Mary bridge car park. We walked up to Tarn Hows and then followed the parg along the eastern side and out onto the High Cross (Oxen Fell) to Knipe Fold bridleway. WE left this to walk up through the Iron Kels plantation and onto the summit of Black Fell (Black Crag). After a visit to the SE Cairn we returned down through Iron Keld to take the bridleway to High Cross (Oxen Fell). We made a short detour to the delightful High Arnside tarn for a "soup stop" before returning to Glen Mary via Yew Tree Tarn.

We left the car at Glen Mary bridge.

Instead of taking the path up alongside the outfall from Tarn Hows we took the bridleway towards Tarn Hows cottage so as to keep any views there may be. Wetherlam seen here was repeatedly in and out of the clouds at this point.

Calf Crag and Long Crag on the southern tip of Holme Fell

Looking back over the Yewdale Fells towards a cloud covered Coniston.

Looking over Holme Fell and a sunlit Lingmoor to Harrison Stickle

Our arrival at Tarn Hows brought the sun out

Our route took us around the eastern side of the Tarn past this this seat with some early daffodils.

Looking across the tarn to Wetherlam

and back to Coniston

Looking south along the tarn

We had left Tarn Hows at this point and were on the bridleway that runs between High Cross (Oxen Fell) towards Knipe Fold. The tarn is High Arnside tarn which we would visit later.

Looking back to Tom Heights from the bridleway

We left the bridleway to take the track through the Iron Keld plantation

Wetherlam from Iron Keld

We had just left the Iron Keld plantation at this point. The route to Black Fell is to my right.

But first a close up of Bowfell

Pike O'Stickle and Loft Crag peek out above Lingmoor

As we made our way towards Black Fell the views began to really open up. The Fairfield Fells and Seat Sandal are shown here

There is still a little snow on the Helvellyn Ridge

Towards the Langdale Fells

Bowfell

Looking back to where we had come from

Looking ahead to the summit. The couple in front were from Grange-over-Sands. It was only after we left them that I wondered could they possibly be Val and Denis who have signed our guestbook recently.

Perfection!!!.....No camera can capture what was laid before us today.

Black Fell (Black Crag) summit.

This seems an appropriate place to end Part 1.

For Part 2 of this walk click HERE

Last Walk:     5th February 2008 -- A local walk on the canal

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