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Green Crag & Harter Fell Lake District ENGLAND

Vivienne Crow enjoys a day on the fells above Eskdale

ARTER FELL may be only 653m high, but given the way its crag-topped, pyramidal outline towers over the western Lake District valley of Eskdale, you’d be forgiven for thinking it reached a far greater altitude. This walk approaches it from the western base of Hardknott Pass, using a combination of valley paths and intermittent moorland trails to first climb neighbouring Green Crag. (For those who are bagging them, this, like Harter Fell, is

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