Wainwright 115 – Book 7 ‘The Western Fells’
Height: 2,126ft – 648m
Grid reference: NY 205 141
Walks Including Fleetwith Pike:
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The view looking across to Fleetwith Pike with Honister Crag below from Honister Slate Mine and the route up to Dale Head.
There’s the Old Tramway which leads to Drum House. It’s along this route that the bus takes visitors to the mine tour and Via Ferrata. (Via Ferrata – Honister Slate Mine) Via Ferrata (‘Iron Way’) it is described as ‘using a series of rungs, ladders and bridges along the old Victorian Miners track to the top of Fleetwith Pike. It gives the sensation of being exposed on a rock face, but with the addition of a continuous cable!’
Fleetwith Fell Honister Slate Mine from the beginning of the route up Dale Head.
FLEETWITH PIKE on the left then Buttermere and Crummock Water beyond with Hen Comb the triangular peaked fell just beyond Mellbreak to the left of it and Robinson on the right (taken from the route up from Honister Slate Mine to Dale Head).
Fleetwith Pike on the left with the road from Honister to Buttermere – the Honister Pass below with Gatesgarth Beck meandering alongside (taken from Dale Head).
Left to right: lower slopes of Robinson leading onto High Snockrigg then down onto Rannerdale Knotts, jutting out into Crummock Water. In front of High Snockrigg you have the lower end of Whiteless Pike known as Whiteless Breast and in front of that you have the lower slopes of Grasmoor with Lanthwaite Wood at the bottom left hand of the photograph. The grey fell behind High Snockrigg (on the left) is Comb Head then after the dip it’s Glaramara. The darker fell in front is Fleetwith Pike then Brandreth; the triangular summit is Green Gable then Great Gable with its more rounded summit. Then Broad Crag and Kirk Fell. High Crag on the right with its slopes going down to Buttermere (lake) followed by High Stile and the lower slopes of Red Pike. Finally, Haystacks is the fell to the right if centre directly in front of Great Gable. Photograph taken from Low Fell.
