Cogra Moss - Lake District Walk
Monday 16th March 2026
The weather for our trip to the Lake District wasn't predicted to be great, but Monday morning turned out to be dry. We made the most of the dry weather and headed out to Cogra Moss to fit in a quick walk before the rain arrived later.
Start: Felldyke car park (NY 0851 1987)
Route: Felldyke car park - Cogra Moss - Felldyke car park
Distance: 4.5 miles Ascent: 240 metres Time Taken: 1 hr 30 mins
Terrain: Clear paths
Weather: Dry and cold to start, turning to rain
Pub Visited: None Ale Drunk: None
Heading along the track to Cogra Moss and looking across to High Hows. The only Birkett in the Loweswater group we have left to do.
Walking towards Cogra Moss we could see a few cars parked close to the reservoir. I guess these fishermen were the reason why.
If the weather had of co-operated we would have headed up to Blake Fell, but rain and low cloud was predicted to arrive in the next couple of hours.
As there were so many people about we didn't fancy heading across the fields to High Hows, so we took the track uphill towards Sharp Knott to see if we could get in via the wood.
As so much of the forest has been cut down once we got a bit higher we could look across to Low Pen.
Ahead of us Owsen Fell comes into view.
Looking across to High Hows summit from the forest track.
Looking towards Burnbank Fell as we explore our options around the back of the forest.
Neither of us fancied fighting our way through the area where the trees had been cut down to then have to clamber over a wall and a fence with two rows of barbed wire, so we retreated to finish our walk around Cogra Moss.
The last time we were here the track wasn't as established as it appears to be now.
Looking across to Cogra Moss from the track. I'm guessing in a few years those newly planted trees will mean this view won't be available.
There were quite a few birds around and John spent some time using an app on his phone to identify them. I took more photos of the elusive High Hows.
Another period of identifying the birds via the app, so another photo of Cogra Moss while the different birds were identified. We could hear them, but rarely saw them.
The track soon brought us back to Cogra Moss.
I have a route plotted for the next time we are able to visit here and it won't be so early in the day.
The cloud level dropped whilst we were walking around Cogra Moss and now even the summit of Sharp Knott is disappearing into it.
A final look at High Hows just before the rain arrived and it was time to head to Keswick for some lunch.
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