Great Gable Remembrance Day Service
Sun 10 Nov 2013
Route: Honister Pass - Drum House - Moses' Trod - Beck Head - Great Gable - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Gillercomb Head Tarns - Brandreth - Drum House - Honister Pass
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 2,300ft
Time: 5 hours 15 minutes
With: Several hundred others
Notes:
Cloud hiding the tops until just after 11am and then breaking up to give blue sky and sunshine. A light covering of snow on the high fells.
I set off from Honister at 8am and was on the summit for 10am. I started my descent at about 11:30 having visited the Westmorland Cairn and chatting to friends after the 'service'.
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The Drum House with Pillar ahead left
Haystacks, The High Stile ridge and Buttermere
Long shadow
Heading for Great Gable
On Moses Trod
Looking back
Up Great Gable from Beck Head
Looking over Beck Head to Kirk Fell
Towards the High Stile ridge and Grasmoor fells from above Beck Head
Wastwater from the path up from Beck Head
The top of Kirk Fell is just in cloud
Heading up
Approaching Great Gable's summit
The new Fell and Rock Climbing Club's war memorial on Great Gable summit
The short address before the two minute silence
Yewbarrow appears with Seatallan beyond
The Westmorland Cairn
The Scafells
Kirk Fell and the Mosedale fells
Wasdale from near the Westmorland Cairn
The Langdale Pikes
Heading for Windy Gap
Ennerdale from Windy Gap
Lots of people still descending off Great Gable to Windy Gap
Ennerdale from Green Gable
Descending off Green Gable
Looking north east over Gillercomb
One of the tarns at Gillercomb Head
Brandreth summit
The Buttermere valley
The High Stile ridge
Descending back to Honister
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