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Borrowdale (Rosthwaite) to Black Sail Youth
Hostel
Distance
8.8km (5½ miles)
Height Gain
540m (1770 feet)
For map, see pages
36-7
Note
Walkers not needing to visit Rosthwaite should bear left opposite
Stonethwaite, cross a bridge and follow a walled track up to the hamlet.
There turn right and walk out to the valley road, keeping straight across
to follow an access road that leads to a bridge spanning the River Derwent
close by the Borrowdale Youth Hostel (Longthwaite).
Walkers wanting to go into Rosthwaite need only keep ahead, to even-
tually pass round the back of Hazel Bank Hotel and reach the village at its
northern end. Turn left and almost immediately right (towards a car park),
following the road past charming cottages. Go past the cottages and turn
right to cross a humpback bridge spanning the Derwent. Immediately go
left to reach the youth hostel.
From the youth hostel, press on into the edge of Johnny's Wood, never
far from the Derwent, following a route linked by gates that eventually
emerges into the edge of the car park at Seatoller.
Go across the car park to the road and turn right through the village,
and just after Dalehead Barn go right at a gate, at first heading away from
Honister, before doubling back to follow the course of an old toll road to
rejoin the surfaced road near the top of the pass.
By a gate, enter the grounds of the Honister Slate Quarry (page 38).
Go beyond the buildings, and in a short distance follow a path that climbs
steeply to gain the line of an old tramway used by the quarry. Follow this
until, as the gradient eases, you encounter an obvious path going left.
Turn onto this, climbing gently until at a large cairn another track branches
right (Moses' Trod, page 35).
Take the right branch and start gradually descending to the top of Loft
Beck, a steep and friable gully that speeds you down to the head of En-
nerdale, not far from Black Sail Youth Hostel.
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