School Knott - Route One

 

Start - Cleabarrow SD 423 962 Distance - 1 mile Ascent - 217 feet Time - 30 minutes

 

 

Cleabarrow Lane junction on the Bowness-on-Windermere ~ Crook road is the starting point for this walk 
Cleabarrow Lane forms part of the Dales Way, a 80 mile long distance footpath between Iikley and Bowness
Looking down on Cleabarrow Tarn from the lane
Cleabarrow Hill from the lane
The summit of School Knott comes into view
The Dales Way carries on straight ahead when the lane forks
The surfaced lane ends on passing the last house in the hamlet, the dales Way continues as a rough track down the hill 
A handgate gives access to pasture fields at the bottom of the hill
Wetherlam from the Dales Way track
Red Screes, St Raven's Edge and Caudale Moor from the Dales Way track
The Coniston Fells from the Dales Way track
Waiting for the farmer to gather some sheep before we pass through another gate
The unmistakeable profile of Red Screes on the horizon
Passing the dried bed of Scout Tarn
After passing through another gate the track becomes confined between a wall and a fence for a short distance
We leave the Dales Way track for a 'short cut' path up a grass bank
Looking back along the 'short cut' path
Rejoining the Dales Way track at a higher level
Cleabarrow Hill from the Dales Way track
Looking back from the Dales Way track
The final gate before reaching Schoolknott Tarn
The track leading up to Schoolknott Tarn frm the gate
The Dales Way path turns off to the right bound for Hag End, we continue on the track to Schoolknott Tarn
School Knott from the track to Schoolknott Tarn
Looking back to Coniston Old Man
Approaching the col between School Knott and Grandsire, the tarn lies just beyond the trees
Schoolknott Tarn
The path to School Knott turns off to the left from the tarn
On the path to School Knott
Looking back to Schoolknottt Tarn and Grandsire
The summit of School Knott appears on the left
The Kentmere Fells over part of the Schoolknott Plantation 
The gate into the School Knott enclosure
Brunt Knott and Ulgraves from the enclosure gate
The path leading up to the summit
Looking over towards Birch Fell and Gummer's How from the path to the summit
Looking back to Grandsire
Approaching the summit of School Knott
The summit of School Knott
Heron Pike, Great Rigg, Fairfield, Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Red Screes, St. Raven's Edge and Caudale Moor on the central horizon 
Red Screes, St. Raven's Edge, Caudale Moor, Sour Howes, Ill Bell, Yoke, Sallows, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts and Tarn Crag form the horizon 
Sallows, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Tarn Crag, Grey Crag and Ancrow Brow from the summit of School Knott  
Brunt Knott and Ulgraves on Potter Fell
The Howgills on the horizon
Grandsire from the summit of School Knott
Cleabarrow Hill from the summit of School Knott
 Birch Fell and Gummer's How from the summit of School Knott
Black Brows on the left with a distant Black Combe on the centre right horizon
The Coniston Fells over Claife Heights
Windermere from the summit of School Knott

 

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