Buttermere Circuit & Rannerdale Bluebells • Walking the Cumbrian Mountains

Name of walk	Buttermere Circuit & Rannerdale Bluebells
Date of walk	2025-04-29

On Tuesday Ged and I drove to Buttermere, parking in the NT car park. Now that Ged is 85 the high fells are beyond him, but he was up for a 5 mile flat walk around the lake.

View down Buttermere towards Fleetwith Pike. We're not early enough for good reflections.

Slopes of Robinson.

View back to the bridge we crossed and over to Whiteless Pike and Grasmoor.

Robinson and Hindscarth.

We had plenty of bench breaks to admire the views.

Now that's a house I'd like to live in.

Some reflections.

We cross the bridge with views of Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks. We meet and chat to two eldery Americans from Virginia who are doing a clockwise circuit and we meet them again later.

View up the lake.

Once we reach Gatesgarth there is a small bit of road walking before we are back on the lakeside path.

High Crag and High Stile.

Classic Buttermere view of the pines.

We have lunch on the elevated memorial seat just off the main path.

Selfie.

Sheep having a paddle.

The tunnel.

Back out into the light.

Not a very good photo of a Pied Flycatcher. It was catching insects and returning to it's nest in the tree hole. We watched it do this several times.

On returning to Buttermere we had a coffee then moved on to Rannerdale. The field was open and we were charged only £3 to park and visit the blue bells, very reasonable, especially as it was supposed to be £4 for all day. There was a coffee and cake stall and seating too. Ged accompanied me to where I took this photo, then sat on a rock while I continued to do a circuit returning via the Cinderdale car Park and back along the road. He would return back to the car the way we had come.