Old Man of Coniston 6.6 km
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Autore
Statistiche del percorso
- Distanza
- 6,56 km
- Dislivello positivo
- 560 m
- Difficoltà tecnica
- Medio
- Dislivello negativo
- 560 m
- Altitudine massima
- 806 m
- TrailRank
-
68
4,8
- Altitudine minima
- 229 m
- Tipo di percorso
- Anello
- Tempo
- 3 ore un minuto
- Coordinate
- 1239
- Caricato
- 10 settembre 2018
- Registrato
- luglio 2018
vicino a Coniston, England (United Kingdom)
Visualizzato 6538 volte, scaricato 285 volte
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Descrizione dell'itinerario
You start at the Walna Scar parking lot at the end of a narrow and steep asphalt road from Coniston. You first walk along a broad gravel road slightly upwards on the east side of the mountain. After about 1.3 km you keep to the left on a less easy, stony track up the mountain. You soon arrive to abandoned slate quarries, and a bit further up you find ruins from houses and cable cars for the transport of slate. You continue further and at about 550 m altitude you arrive to a saddle point with straight ahead lake Low Water below the Old Man of Coniston. You walk to the lake for a view and then continue up the mountain ridge on the northeast side of the summit. Great views towards Coniston Water open up on the left and after 250 m of further climbing you arrive to the summit, marked with a cairn and a marker stone. From the summit, the views are great. We walked a bit west on the ridge to get a good view of Dow Crag, but then returned to the cairn, and went down on a less obvious path south. On this path you soon lose sight of the summit as you go down, but you continuously have a good view of the scenery south up to the Irish Sea and even the other side of Morecambe Bay (with good weather). On some points you have a good view of the Bursting Stone Quarry, and the parking lot where you started. After 2.2. km from the summit, you arrive to Walna Scar Road, a broad gravel track, and from there it is only about 700 m to get back to the start.
Waypoint
Punto informativo
Ascent from Low Water
On the ridge northeast of the summit you make the ascent from Low Water lake.
Miniera
Climb towards Old Man
Here the real climb starts towards the quarries and Low Water
Descent towards Little Arrow Moor
You take a path south from the summit down towards Little Arrow Moor
Gravel Road towards the Bell
From the parking, you take this broad gravel track towards the Bell (a hill)
Little Arrow Moor
Below the summit you pass by this moor with great views towards the south
Lago
Vetta
Rovine
Panorama
0 m
View towards Dow Crag
A little west of the summit, the views towards Dow Crag are even better
Walna Scar Road
Here, the path down from the summit meets the gravel road from the parking lot.
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Well marked, thank you so much! I enjoyed going back down the quiet, gently sloping path :)
Thanks for the review, Chris! Glad you liked the quiet way back 😊
Fabulous. Perfect for us. We did this route on a very ‘busy’ day- a column of human ants making their way to the summit. But the descent? We were totally on our own. So peaceful. Clearly there is a more popular way down, but we loved it. We didn’t see a single soul on the descent. Walking poles recommended however, to take the strain on the knees!
Glad you liked the way back, Jeh! Thanks for your comments.
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Thanks for the trail. Left at dawn on a wet and windy morning and couldn’t see more than 20 metres.
Trail was very accurate and invaluable as trying to hold on to a map in that weather was a challenge in itself
You are welcome, SiClement. Pity about the weather. You really missed out on the views then. But glad you liked it anyway, thanks!
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Fantastische route! Schitterend pad met mooie uitzichten. Dank voor het plaatsen.
Graag gedaan, Rob. Mooi dat de route zo goed bevallen is! Bedankt voor de positieve review.