Ward’s Stone shooter’s tracks

Starting off at Stoops Bridge, we followed the Tarnbrook Wyre (river) up to Lower Lee and headed up onto the fells at Higher Lee.  It’s a long steady climb up the shooter’s tracks until you get to the luncheon hut at Grizedale Head.  Here we took a right along the tracks towards Ward’s Stone Breast.

Writing this some two years later, I don’t know why we didn’t walk up to Ward’s Stone – when there’s another short track running up to Rugged Crag, perhaps just time constraints or lack of water.  However, we plodded on along the same track until we reached the next luncheon hut near Thorn Crag and Hell Crag.  From here we descended the fell back into Tarnbrook.

The route then takes you back along the Tarnbrook Wyre (which eventually becomes the River Wyre) back to Lower Lee, where we join the original path back to the car.

Our drive back to Preston took us through Scorton, which meant we stopped off at Scorton Priory for a pint and some chipe, as we often did.

This was a fantastic early summer’s walk and I just wish we’d brought the proper camera so we could have taken more pictures and been a little more prepared so we could have visit the trig point.  Looking forward to next time!