For a shorter walk, picking of two Wainwrights for the dog, who had 6 left to do, this turned into rather a longer walk than anticipated. We had planned to park at the end of the lane leading up from Brownfoot - 2 miles north of Staveley. However there was no real parking and the road was single track with no passing spaces - worse than the Kentmere road. So we retreated and ended up parking in Staveley. The bridleway from the end of the lane above Browfoot was lovely and took us past numerous flushes with many heath spotted orchids. On arriving at the ford - the description in the book we had read said - at the ford follow the wall to the summit of Sour Howes - which wall though was another matter! After we finally found a route up out onto the open access land we were able to spot the correct wall and from there on in navigation was straight forward. The round is a pleasant walk and it was good to be out on the fell again after the prolonged hot spell of weather. From the summit of Sallows though we decided to drop down Garburn Pass to Kentmere itself and take a well marked path back through woodland to our start ( with a great view of two foxes on the path) ....rather than risk any navigation errors! A good walk - 14 miles and Rocky now only has four remaining Wainwrights to do. Not many photographs due to drizzle!
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| From the flanks of Sour Howes towards our start. |
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| The correct wall to Sour Howes summit. |
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| Rocky on the top. |
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| Raven. |
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| Sallows summit. |
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| Looking across Garburn Pass to the Kentmere round. |
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| ...give him a boulder! and .... |
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