Room with a view
Not every one can say they can see their bedroom from the top of Cumbria’s finest mountain walk, but you can if you stay at The Larches. I’ve just been completing the first five local walks for the website’s Eco-Friendly section adding descriptions and pictures; and the proof of the assertion can just be seen with the Back of Skiddaw circular walk (Photo No 4)!
Of all the tops I’ve covered so far, the most underrated for my money, is 518 metres high Carsleddam (Walk No 4), its shapely form nestling below Skiddaw Little Man (Photo opp). W A Poucher, a veteran photographer of the Lakes, who lived his last years in Thornthwaite, never mentions it and Wainwright refers only to it en passant in his Guide to the Northern Fells. It’s got great views and is higher than Catbells (439 metres). Trouble is it’s hard to reach and on the way to somewhere else.
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