On a gorgeous autumn day in November 2018 I set out after breakfast from the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and headed north on the Pike Howe route to the Langdale Pikes. By the time I’d reached Grasmere later that day, I’d covered a super six Wainwright summits - including three new ones for me in Thunacar Knott, High Raise, and Sergeant Man.
You can download an OSMaps copy of my route, although I should point out that this was plotted afterwards using the app and is not a GPS tracker. Eagled-eyed hikers will also notice how I skirted two further Wainwright summits in Pavey Ark and Blea Rigg. I had decided beforehand not to double-back to visit Pavey Ark. It’s a wonderful fell but the main joy of it is climbing it from Stickle Tarn rather than the flat summit itself. I had planned to finish on Blea Rigg, but my first experience of that fell was twenty minutes scratching my head wondering where exactly the summit was, so with a bus to catch at Grasmere I decided to brush straight past.
The photographs I took that day are probably my favourites of all my days on the fells so far. There is something very special about the browns and the oranges on the fells mixed with the November sunshine. So I thought I would make this post a little bit different - rather than some words with a few pictures, I thought I would let the photographs tell the story. So here we are - Dungeon Ghyll to Grasmere in fifteen photographs (and a few accompanying words)…