A walk from Elterwater

Walk Leader: Jenny Mathias
Total Distance: 8 miles
Total Ascent/descent: 2000ft app

A Route anticlockwise from flag

  This walk has lots of variety and is described as 'challenging' in the Country Walking magazine. We had a beautiful, hot day to do the reccie. You we see mountains, lakes, rivers, gills and eyesores! It is a very undulating walk with some narrow paths and screes to cross.

We will leave Elterwater and climb up on to Dow Bank before dropping down through a steep path in the trees towards Grasmere. A short road walk will take us to a path skirting Silver How back on to the ridge once more. As we cross the ridge the Langdale valley comes into view showing the scar of the quarry on the far side. We follow the contour of the fell, high above Chapel Stile crossing becks and waterfalls before a sharp descent brings us to the Great Langdale road. Following the road up the valley for a short distance we join a path that takes us behind Baysbrown then the road through the quarry until we find a path to to Langdale Beck which we then follow into Elterwater.