Staveley Fell - One hazard exchanged for another!

Staveley Fell was one of the Outlying Fells I was desperate to get done before the bracken makes an appearance. AW warns that the bracken on the ridge impedes progress so at the tail end of April, I was expecting no more than green shoots. Of course I hadn't anticipated recent forest operations that made some of the walking more awkward then expected!

Surprising for its closeness to Windermere there is an abundance of parking in Staveley in Cartmel. For a
change I more or less followed the original route.

The track through the woods leaves Staveley in Cartmel beside a telephone box...

and doesn't take long to reach the open fell...

before entering an overgrown 'fire-break'...

which soon emerges onto a forest road...

gaining the ridge was a little more awkward then expected...

another hazy day - so long range views where not that good, Lakeside & Haverthwaite Steam train...

Windermere looms out of the haze...

the bracken wasn't the problem...

Staveley Fell's summit, Windermere & Gummer's How...

the path beside the wall soon re-entered the felled forest...

back on the forest road...