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BLENCATHRA OR SADDLEBACK.
In order to reach the top of this mountain, it is best to go
along the road towards Penrith as far as Scales, a hamlet
six miles from Keswick; here a bye-road keeps close under
the fell, which must be pursued till a shepherd's green path
can be traced, winding up the hill-side. The first ridge
this path reaches, gives a glimpse down into the vale,
watered by the Glenderamaken; thence to the summit it is
easy. From Linthwaite Pike, the highest point, the prospect
is open to the north, east, and south. At the base of an
enormous perpendicular crag, called Tarn Crag, depending
from the top, is Scales Tarn, a beautiful circular piece of
transparent water, with a well defined shore, covering an
area of three acres and a half, and being eighteen feet
deep. Here you are engulphed in a basin of steeps, having
Tarn Crag on the north, the rocks falling from Sharp Edge on
the east, and on the west the soft turf on which the descent
has been made. From the summit of the mountain you may
descend either directly upon Threlkeld, or by Lile Fell,
Priestman, and Knott Crags, to the Glenderaterra, the stream
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