3rd April 2008

Today's walk: Scout Scar (Wainwright's Outlying Fells p2)


Kendal Town Hall


the handrail to assist progress up Beast Banks


the old summerhouse in Serpentine Woods


Helsfell Nab - a neat little ridge but not in the class of Striding Edge


the 13th tee and Cunswick Scar from Helsfell Nab


Kendal bypass from the footbridge


the cairn on Cunswick Scar looking to a rather misty Kentmere


Scout Scar from the escarpment of Cunswick Scar


Cunswick Scar from the north end of Scout Scar


looking south along Scout Scar to the Kent Estuary


looking north along the escarpment of Scout Scar


the mushroom shelter erected 1912, restored 1969 and 2002


looking from the escarpment across the Lyth Valley


looking back along the escarpment to the summit ..


.. and again zoomed in


panorama from west to north as cloud lifts from the fells - click on the image for a larger version


the descent path with the old racecourse ahead


milepost by the stile onto the Brigsteer road


looking back west from the bridge over the bypass