Sale Fell, Ling Fell 10th June 2013

Working up in Glasgow ,  so took the opportunity of stopping off in the Lakes for a quick walk on Monday afternoon, taking advantage of the long June daylight. The plan was to do a couple of smaller Wainwrights as I had limited time. Sale Fell and Ling Fell seem to fit the bill.

 Just near the top of Bassenthwaite Lake I turned left towards Wythop Mill, and parked at the side of the road before the church , just opposite a footpath sign on the right. This was on the northern flank of sale Fell. I started 

Start of the walk along northern flank of Sale Fell

on the footpath and then took the sharp left heading  east along the flank of the fell with the top of Bassenthwaite in view. Soon the path bnt around so that the Lake was on my left. Looking at the map I could see the footpath headed for Kelswick on the South side of the Fell. I took the decision to just head up the fell away from the path. Bloody hell - that was harder work than I expected, with one false summit after another as I just kept heading for high ground.....eventually got to the summit, absolutely knackered.

 

From there I picked up a grassy path , heading west and gradually downwards.

 

 



Eventually, this brought me down to the valley bottom, along the road for a short distance before  a left turn over Brumston Bridge , and picking up the corpse path which snakes its way around the flanks of Ling Fell and gradually heads up to the summit.

 

 

 

 



 

The going was nice and steady, warm, , no breeze, but a bit hazy.

 

From the summit, I took the same path down, mindful of the time , and the fact I still had to drive up to Glasgow. Once back down to the valley, I took the road into Wythop Mill, and then back out towards the car.

 



 

A brilliant walk in a quiet secluded corner of the Lakes,

About 5 miles and 1,965 ft of ascent.  OS Map OL4