Wainwrights

10,000 trees: the changed face of the walk to Raven Crag

10,000 trees: the changed face of the walk to Raven Crag

Raven Crag still stands proudly overlooking the northern tip of Thirlmere, but the lower slopes around it look a little different than they did a few years ago, and the direct route to the summit does not look like the one Wainwright wrote about in 1958 or even the version of Clive Hutchby in his excellent 2016 revision.