Holiday in Lake District – Glaramara

Again we were camped at a camp site with plenty of scope for nice walks without having to drive anywhere.

We set off up the road towards Seatoller on a lovely sunny and warm morning as far as a row of houses called Glen View, then crossed the road and followed a path through bracken along Combe Gill and followed the gradually-rising ground beneath Raven Crag on the north-east side of Thornythwaite Fell.

There was a small group of climbers on a route on Raven Crag and we could hear their voices and clanking gear as we passed underneath.

We were heading for the obvious large notch in the rocky end to the valley called Combe Door.

Avoiding the ever-deepening gully formed by Combe Gill, we followed increasingly steeper ground and had to follow a meandering route to avoid short rocky crags.

When we were nearly at Combe Door, we took the opportunity to sit on some small square boulders to have a quick rest and a snack: it was hard work following the steep ground!

From the large notch of Combe Door, we then reached a large flatter area passing below Combe Head as we headed for the large rocky summit area of Glaramara.

We reached a footpath rising up via Thornythwaite Fell or Hind Crag towards the summit and joined this.

Soon we were at a short section of pleasant and very easy scrambling up a rocky series of steps and we soon reached the very summit of Glaramara marked by a cairn and a small sheltering wall made from piled up rocks.

Sitting in the shelter of a piece of rock at the summit we were out of the breeze and ate our lunch in the peaceful quiet as we gazed at the views all around.

It was tempting to just sit there on such a sunny and clear day looking at the views and enjoying the peace and quiet, but soon we retraced our steps back as far as the place where we had joined the path earlier and then continued onwards down the path following over Thornythwaite Fell back to the road and once again tot the campsite.