Scout Scar, Lake District, Summer
My poor Lisabet is still fighting COVID-19.
So, after being a dutiful boyfriend and sorting out brews/shopping/whatnot, I took the opportunity for a solid hike up to Scout Scar.
The weather is really starting to pick up in the UK now. Whilst we haven’t seen temperatures that the likes of France are currently experiencing (pushing 42°C), parts of the southeast England and London have been hitting 30°C.
Up here in Cumbria, temperatures have been hanging around the low 20s, but with a pleasant breeze. This made the hike up to and around Scout Scar all the more glorious.
All photos taken on my Fujifilm X-T2 using my Vivitar “Series 1” 28–105mm ƒ/2.8–3.8 zoom lens and Laowa 9mm ƒ/2.8 prime lens. Images made 90% in-camera using the Velvia film simulation, finished off in Affinity Photo.
Up Beast Banks we go. I can never resist looking back down the road and admiring the views.
Everywhere is looking so lush and impossibly pretty.
The path below Brigsteer Road winds it way to Underbarrow estate.
Crossing over the A591.
Past Bradleyfield Farm and heading up the back of Scout Scar, I spot some Swaledales chilling in the adjacent fields.
As I climb up the views looking back open up and you can start to make out the Howgills and their rolling forms.
And onto Scout Scar edge! Crackin’ light all around and still loads of wildflowers along the scar.
In the distance you can see all the way across the Kent Estuary towards Arnside Knott.
All the way across the Lyth Valley to the Kentmere and Kirkstone fells.
One of the Lyth Valley’s little villages gets illuminated by the sun as it breaks through the clouds. The Lake District fells rise above.
A lone white cottage in the Lyth Valley, with the unmistakeable shape of the Langdale Pikes above.
Approaching Hunter’s Leap and the sheer drop down to the valley floor.
Time to equip the 9mm ultra-wide lens for some near-far compositions.
Getting as close as I dared to the edge so I can nab some striking shots along the limestone edge near Hunter’s Leap.
Wonderful shelves of limestone near Hunter’s Leap. Just don’t look down.
At Hunter’s Leap flowers galore decorate the limestone karst landscape.
Looking all the way back along the edge of Scout Scar towards the Kent Estuary.
This is the nick on Scout Scar known as Hunter’s Leap.
Daisies populate Scout Scar edge near the Mushroom. In the distance are the Kentmere fells.
This part of Scout Scar marks the point where I move away from the edge and back over the hump of the fell towards Kendal.
The Coniston fells catch the scanning rays of the sun like the Lyth Valley below.
Another precipitous drop that I edged closer to for this composition.
One last look along Scout Scar edge all the way to the Eastern Lake District fells before I venture down the back of the fell again.
Sheep happily chilling in the fields near Bradleyfield Farm.