16 April 2017

The Calf and Cautley Spout from Sedbergh

A fine Easter Monday 11 mile walk with Ian Lyne.

Route: having left the car in the central car park (£3.50 for 4 hours) and heading west through town to walk up Howgill Lane past a recreation field and out of town to find a track to Lockbank Farm. Passing through the farmyard to take a path through gorse initially left and then right rising diagonally and then almost impossibly steeply up hill to find a gentler north east path under Windertrack. Possibly mistakenly heading up hill to a col and then deciding to take a track slightly back left to the summit of Winder. Then on a clear route to the summit of Arant Haw. Then on a made path rising steeply to Calders and on an undulating summit path to the Calf. Taking the obvious onwards path to Hare Shaw. At this point possibly going slight wrong and picking a tricky pathless route to the top of a path beside Cautley Spout. Descending this and along the valley bottom to a foot bridge on the right and a long valley side path, then track, then minor road, then main road to Sedbergh.

Conditions: high cloud and some sun. Quite still on the top.

Pub: the Red Lion, Sedberdh for a half of Red Lion Howgill Hop. Then the Royal Barn, Kirkby Lonsdale for Kirkby Lonsdale Ruskin's, Singletrack, Radical and Taste of Cumbria Easter Brew.