Barf, Lord's Seat & Broom Fell  

Date 6/7/2003
Distance 5 miles
Weather Overcast
Walk done by Jed
Starting Point Lay-by near Swan Hotel (now closed)
Height  
Barf 1536'
Lord's Seat 1811'
Broom Fell 1677'
 
 

 

Barf - This little rogue mountain cannot be tamed

Lord's Seat - Once a fashionable climb, Lord's Seat is now out of favour - yet the heathery top is a pleasant lunching place no less than of yore.

Broom Fell - nothing to justify a special visit to its summit

    Alfred Wainwright


The Clerk at the foot of Barf

 

The Bishop from the foot of the scree. This angle appears to make it smaller than it actually is

 

The view over the Vale of Keswick from Wainwright's ledge.

 

Finally out of the woods and the final section looms in front 

 

Nearing Barf's summit.

 

Skiddaw

Ullock Pike and Skiddaw from Barf

 

The view from Barf

 

Looking across Bass Lake to Binsey

 

Barf's summit

 

Lord's Seat from Barf

 

Looking back to Barf 

 

Lord's Seat summit 

 

Broom Fell from Lords Seat.

 

Looking SW from the approach to Broom Fell

 

Broom Fell Summit

 

An impressive cairn on a supposed uninteresting mountain

 

Wainwright's mysterious wall

 

One last view of the Vale of Keswick on the return