Skiddaw from Latrigg

Favourite Lakeland Walks

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September 30th 2008

This walk is very close to where we have our holiday lodge in Bassenthwaite so, of course, it’s a much walked favourite.

I usually start the walk from the car park on Gale Road beside Madden Dodd at the head of a minor road near Ormanthwaite just outside Keswick. I go through a gate at the top end of the Car Park, turn left and walk towards a kissing gate then continue to another gate. You then pass a Stone Cross (Hawell Memorial) and follow the line of the fence, which soon leads to a wide, clear gravelled path leading up the mountain.
Pass through another gate then continue up a zig-zag path that is the steepest section of this walk. The summit peak ahead is Little Man but your route veers right just before that summit approach and goes through a gate and along a gentle incline pointing towards Skiddaw. At the end of this gentle incline you go through a gate and climb up to a cairn. From here a row of cairns accompanies the path to the summit ridge and along the ridge to the summit itself.

On a clear day, from the summit of what is Lakeland’s 4th highest peak there are commanding views of Keswick, Derwentwater and Buttermere. You also get a fine panorama of Lakeland’s highest ranges, including Scafell Pike and Helvellyn.

Technical details

Canon EOS 5D, Canon L series 24-105mm lens, 1/160 sec @ f7, F/L 24mm, ISO160, 0.3 ND Grad Lee filter

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Favourite Lakeland Walks