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| The Queen's Head Hotel on the A592 Kirkstone Pass road is the starting point for this walk. There is layby parking to the north of the hotel and also some to the south above Church Bridge. Walk down the narrow road opposite the hotel, passing the hamlet of Town Head, to join Ings Lane |
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| If starting from Church Bridge, a fingerpost sign a few hundred yards to the north, indicates the start of a bridleway which leads down to Ings Lane |
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| The bridleway leading to Ings Lane |
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| The start of Ings Lane, which is a private road but is also a public footpath |
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| Troutbeck Tongue from the start of Ings Lane |
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| After just over a mile the lane leads to Troutbeck Park Farm which was once owned by Beatrix Potter |
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| Troutbeck Tongue from the approach along Ings Lane |
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| Ings Bridge over Trout Beck |
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| Troutbeck Tongue from near Hagg Bridge |
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| Past Hagg Bridge a stile over a single strand electric fence gives access to a path rising diagonally across a field |
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| Looking across to Troutbeck Park Farm from the field path |
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| The south ridge of Troutbeck Tongue from the field path |
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| Exit the field by a gate onto a cart track |
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| Looking back along the Troutbeck Valley from the gate |
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| The cart track leads on towards Hagg Gill |
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| Looking back along the cart track to the summit of Dodd Hill on Wansfell |
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| The cart track is only followed for a short distance. Beyond the first gate a faint path leads up the steep flank of Troutbeck Tongue |
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| The path soon improves as it rises alongside the fence to join the rocky spine of the south ridge |
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| Looking across over Woundale Raise to Snarker Pike on Red Screes from the south ridge |
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| The steeper upper part of the ridge from a stile over the cross ridge fence |
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| Looking down the lower part of the south ridge |
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| Dodd Hill from the south ridge |
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| Looking back along the Troutbeck Valley to Windermere |
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| Looking down to Troutbeck Park Farm from the south ridge |
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| Froswick and Ill Bell as the path veers to the right to avoid the upper tier of crags |
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| The summit comes into view across a shallow depression |
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| The summit of Troutbeck Tongue |
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| Froswick and Ill Bell from the summit of Troutbeck Tongue |
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| Sallows and Sour Howes from the summit of Troutbeck Tongue |
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| Windermere from the summit of Troutbeck Tongue |
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| Dodd Hill and Baystones on Wansfell |
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| To the west Crinkle Crags and Bowfell appear on the horizon |
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| Red Screes over the ridges of Great Knott and Broad End |
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| Caudale Moor |
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| Threshthwaite Mouth flanked by Threshthwaite Crag and Thornthwaite Crag |
