Green Crag

We decided to climb this southern top from Seathwaite in the Duddon valley. A beautiful spring day, sunshine, blue sky and all the tops clear. We parked just beyond the Newfield Inn and took the path through a narrow gap in the wall and then across the footbridge crossing Tarn beck through a lovely woodland walk to the old stone bridge over the River Duddon and then continued though the trees toward Wallowbarrow farm. Here we headed upwards towards the crags, to the sound of the clinking of climbing hardware and shouts of 'climb when you're ready' followed by 'climbing'. On closer inspection, the rock face was dotted with climbers .

The path was delightful, climbing steadily, still in the trees but with carpets of miniature daffodils to either side . Soon we left the daffodils and the climbers behind and headed north towards Grassguards along a wide undulating track, in and out of forestry commission land through several gates to keep grazing animal from eating the young trees and shrubs.

At Grassguards we stayed on the left bank of the river and headed through a wide clearing up through very boggy ground with Harter fell on our right and Green Crag ahead. A long and gradual incline eventually led us to the open moorland where we followed an indistinct path heading slightly left of our final summit and eventually along the summit ridge to the cairn.

We had not met a soul throughout the walk so far but whilst eating our lunch on the top a man arrived who it turned out was on his penultimate Wainwright with only Yewbarrow to finish. He was off to climb Harter fell after Green Crag but we had already decided to return the way we came up, it was such a beautiful walk.

Time 4hrs 30 minutes

Grade Excellent

Memories

• Gorgeous spring weather


• Daffodils

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