Kirk Fell and Great Gable
Tue 18 Nov 2014
Route: Wasdale Head - Black Sail Pass - Kirk Fell - Kirkfell Tarn - Kirk Fell (East Top) - Beckhead Tarn - Beck Head - Great Gable - Sty Head - Wasdale Head
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 3,320ft
Time: 5 hours
With: On Own
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine for most of the walk. Windy in the tops. Clouded up for a while when I was on Gable.
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The Wasdale Head Inn with a sunlit Pillar behind
Mosedale and Pillar
Yewbarrow and Dore Head Screes from my crossing of Gatherstone Beck as I head for Black Sail Pass
Black Sail Pass
Looking back down on Black Sail Pass
Pillar
Looking across to Kirk Fell's east top from the main top
Looking over Kirkfell Tarn to Great Gable
The Scafells from Kirkfell Tarn
Looking back to Kirk Fell's summit from the east top
Pillar and Ennerdale from the east top
Looking over Beck Head to Great Gable
Wasdale from Beck Head
Ennerdale from my ascent of Great Gable
Kirk Fell from Great Gable
Haystacks
Fell and Rock Climbing Club's war memorial, Great Gable summit
Wasdale Head from the Westmorland Cairn
Looking steeply down on Tophet Bastion and the upper wall of the Napes, with the scree of Great Hell Gate running down to the left
The start of the Breast Route, down to Sty Head, enough cairns?
Styhead Tarn with Seathwaite Fell and Glaramara behind
Skew Gill
Sty Head stretcher box
Wasdale Head
Great Gable from Wasdale Head
The Wasdale Head fells from Wastwater
Previous Walk: Latrigg (Sun 16 Nov 2014)