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Calf Crag - Route One |
| Start - Grasmere NY 336 076 | Distance - 4 miles | Ascent - 1,725 feet | Time - 2 hours : 20 minutes |
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| Walking along the Easedale Road from Grasmere |
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| Past Oak Lodge the road enters an unenclosed pasture |
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| Tarn Crag ahead with Pike of Carrs, which is part of Calf Crag, above Far Easedale on the right |
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| Looking back to Heron Pike |
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| The road ends at the lane approach to Brimmer Head Farm where a signpost indicates the path to Far Easedale |
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| Old barns passed on the walled and rough lane to Far Easedale |
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| The path comes alongside an attractive section of Far Easedale Beck |
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| Pike of Carrs from the approach to Stythwaite Steps |
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| The path continues on over the Stythwaite Steps footbridge which has replaced the old stepping stones over Easedale Beck |
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| Looking back from Stythwaite Steps |
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| Looking up towards the head of Far Easedale from the path above Stythwaite Steps |
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| Looking back to Helm Crag from the path above Stythwaite Steps |
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| Looking up the middle section of Far Easedale |
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| Looking back along the lower section of Far Easedale |
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| The path passes below the imposing buttress of Deer Bield Crag as it approaches the upper part of Far Easedale |
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| The path recrosses Far Easdale Beck as it nears the head of the valley |
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| Looking back along Far Easedale |
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| Looking up to the summit of Calf Crag from the waterfalls below Moor Moss |
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| The head of Far Easedale from Moor Moss |
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| The summit of Calf Crag from Moor Moss |
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| Approaching the wide saddle at the head of Far Easedale |
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| Looking back from the saddle at the head of Far Easedale |
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| Several paths cross the saddle which overlooks the head of the Wythburn Valley. The main path continues straight ahead over initially boggy ground to cross Greenup Edge bound for Borrowdale |
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| Another path turns to the left climbing the slope to Broadstone Head |
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| From the saddle the path to Calf Crag makes an acute right turn crossing the slope above Moor Moss |
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| On reaching a level shoulder the summit comes into view |
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| An undulating path, boggy in places, leads easily to the summit outcrops |
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| Approaching the summit of Calf Crag |
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| The summit cairn on Calf Crag |
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| Greenup Edge from the summit of Calf Crag |
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| Great Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd and Helvellyn on the skyline |
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| Nethermost Pike and Dollywaggon Pike on the left with Seat Sandal and Fairfield on the right |
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| The continuing ridge over Pike of Carrs to Gibson Knott and Helm Crag. Great Rigg, Red Screes and Heron Pike are the fells on the skyline |
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| Far Easedale and Grasmere from the summit of Calf Crag |
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