| Heron Pike - Route One |
| Start - Grasmere NY 336 076 | Distance - 2.5 miles | Ascent - 1,860 feet | Time - 1 hour : 55 minutes |
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| The walk starts along the lane beside the Swan Hotel |
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| A few hundred yards from the hotel a narrow lane rises alongside Greenhead Gill |
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| At the end of the lane a gate gives access to the open fellside and a footbridge crossing Greenhead Gill |
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| After crossing Greenhead Gill the stone pitched path to Alcock Tarn turns to rise steeply alongside a wall |
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| Stone Arthur across Greenhead Gill |
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| The path continues alongside a walled plantation |
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| Looking back to Helm Crag |
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| Above the plantation the path climbs a steep shoulder below Butter Crags in a series of zigzags |
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| The head of Greenhead Gill from the path below Butter Crags |
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| Looking along the deeply enclosed Greenhead Gill |
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| The path turns to the right below Butter Crags |
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| Approaching the rocky shelf of Grey Crag |
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| Looking back to Stone Arthur and Greenhead Gill |
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| The Coniston Fells |
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| Approaching the walled encosure of Alcock Tarn |
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| Looking back to Great Rigg above the head of Greenhead Gill |
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| Alcock Tarn |
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| Alcock Tarn |
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| The western flank of Heron Pike from the tarn embankment. The way ahead passes through the gap in the wall to a path rising to the right |
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| Pike o' Blisco, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Langdale Pikes from Alcock Tarn |
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| The path makes a rising traverse across the slopes to the low point on the skyline just right of centre in the photo |
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| Looking back to Alcock Tarn |
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| Grasmere and the Coniston fells |
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| Approaching the ridge line |
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| Looking back down the slope, Alcock Tarn can be seen centre left |
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| Joining the main ridge path rising from Rydal |
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| The way ahead on the popular Fairfield Horseshoe path |
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| Bowfell and the Langdale Pikes |
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| Red Screes over the High Pike ~ Low Pike ridge |
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| Looking back along the ridge |
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| Higher on the ridge looking to Coniston Water |
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| The final slopes leading to the summit |
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| The Coniston fells |
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| Approaching the summit of Heron Pike |
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| Windermere from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| Coniston Water from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| The Coniston Fells from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| The Langdale Pikes in shadow with Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells on the horizon. Sergeant Man and High Raise on the right |
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| The Greenburn Valley enclosed by Gibson Knott and Calf Crag on the left and Steel Fell on the right |
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| The connecting ridge to Great Rigg and Fairfield with Seat Sandal and Dollywaggon Pike on the left |
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| Fairfield and Hart Crag on the horizon. The north top of Heron Pike lies a few hundred yards across Blind Cove above Erne Crag |
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| Heron Pike from the summit of Erne Crag |
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