Sale Fell - a Sunday morning walk

Time taken approximately 1.5 hours
Difficulty of walk (1-10) 2

Sale Fell is lovely little fell at the northern most tip of Bassenthwaite Lake. Its a great Sunday morning walk and very popular locally. Our walk's starting point is outside The Pheasant Inn which is situated on a little loop road off the A66 and is well signposted.

An alternative to this walk would be to park near Brumston Bridge (via Wythop Mill) and climb from the other side. Ling Fell is a similar fell and so you could encompass both Wainwrights in the same day from that side of the hill.

From The Pheasant Inn then take the small road to the right of the pub signposted for Wythop Mill. Following the road from about 1Km past the wood on the right and the road starts to climb gradually until there's an obvious track branching off to the left with a 5 bar gate set back. This is the entrance to Sale Fell.

Going through the gate then the paths branch left and right, continue on the same line effectively bearing right and follow the fell path around until you reach a wall.The path ahead is the path up from Brumston Bridge (mentioned earlier) so bear left to start the climb to the summit. 

There a various sub routes and its not really important which to take as long as you're climbing up the grassy fell's ridge.It isn;t really very clear at first which of the peaks at the top is the actual summit as there's no trig point and several ridges but once at the top then it becomes clearer.

Carry on past the summit and follow the path down to a gateway. At the gateway there is an option of a shortcut turning left, before or after the gateway. If you turn left then you can follow the wall down to where this walk will eventually come out.

We will go through the gateway and follow the path ahead of us.  You'll notice a curved ridge in front of you, Lothwaite, bearing round to the left following the path just below the ridge. At the far end is a seat with great views over Bassenthwaite.

Follow the natural curve of the ridge and turn down to your left heading back down the fell towards a stream. Cross the stream and through a gate, then you are now following the path down the Fell side towards fork in the paths which marked the entrance to Sale Fell.
When you come to that fork turn right,back through the gate and back onto the road heading back to The Pheasant Inn and a welcome drink.