Some Walks Out and Back Again

Here at WalkLakes we generally try to find you walks which are circular so you're not walking the same way twice but sometimes it just makes sense to walk somewhere and then walk back. Here are some examples:

• Red Screes from Kirkstone Pass (2.5km or 1.6 miles, 336m ascent) - Red Screes overlooks the top of Kirkstone Pass presenting to the inn on the opposite side of the road its steep eastern face riven by crags and tongues of red hue scree. A way through seems unlikely, but there is a path winding amongst the crags, climbing steep rough rocky steps, that makes its way to the trig point at the summit.

  
  Red Screes from The Struggle

  As you climb the view opens out behind you to the ridge of Wansfell and Wansfell Pike with Windermere seemingly shy behind it. When you eventually reach the top an all round panorama is revealed.

• Bleaberry Tarn above Buttermere (5.0km or 3.1 miles, 406m ascent) - a short distance from the village of Buttermere in the Western Lake District lies a tarn set high in the shadow of some of the finest peaks in all of Lakeland. This is Bleaberry Tarn. Its outfall cascades over the rocks of Sour Milk Gill which can be seen from both the path and from the village. Our walk takes you up to it.

  
  Bleaberry Tarn
  

• Binsey (3.0km or 1.9 miles, 190m ascent) - is a nice little hill, and that's not to damn it with faint praise. It's often said that to see the big hills in all their glory go to a smaller neighbour. That's very true here. Looking around from the summit much of the North of Skiddaw group are laid out, as well as the spine of Ullock Pike, Longside Edge. In the distance are the hills above Whinlatter, and west to Buttermere. Northwards to Scotland, the hills of Dumfries and Galloway are visible across the Solway Firth. In fact standing on its own, as it does, gives fantastic 360° views.

  
  Dash Valley from Binsey

• Grisedale Tarn (4.0km or 2.5 miles, 390m ascent) - nestling high in the mountains at the head of three valleys in a great scoop Grisedale Tarn has an atmospheric setting. Squeezed by the southern guardian of the great Helvellyn ridge - Dollywaggon Pike to its north, and the bulks of Fairfield and Seat Sandal to the south, its outflow treks north east through the long valley of Grisedale to the village of Patterdale.

  
  Grisedale Tarn

Anyway that's just some examples, there are more in our collection so hopefully you will find something to appeal to you.

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