Branstree and Selside Pike
Mon 2 May 2011
Route: Mardale Head - Gatescarth Pass - Branstree - Branstree Tarn - High Howes - Selside Pike - Old Corpse Road - Haweswater lakeside path - Mardale Head
Distance: 5.50 miles
Ascent: 1,800ft
Time: 3 hours
With: Anne
Notes:
Blue sky, sunshine, scattered clouds. Strong easterly wind
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Haweswater from the Gatescarth Pass track
Looking back down the Gatescarth Pass track
Harter Fell with High Street in the distance
Harter Fell from near the top of Gatescarth Pass
Looking over Gatescarth Pass to Adam Seat
Longsleddale from Branstree
Branstree's flat summit
Selside Pike with the North Pennines beyond from the higher of the two cairns on Artle Crag
The survey post on Branstree and a glimpse of Haweswater
The larger of the two nameless tarns between Branstree and High Howes
Selside Pike's summit cairn with the North Pennines in the distance
Selside Pike's summit cairn/shelter with High Street in the distance
Looking down into Swindale
On the Old Corpse Road heading back to Mardale Head
Mardale Head (Harter Fell, Mardale Ill Bell and High Street)
The Rigg and Rough Crag onto High Street, Riggindale, Kidsty Pike and Wood Howe (island)
Heading down to Haweswater
Haweswater
The end of The Rigg and Wood Howe
Previous Walk: Five Coniston fells (Sat 26 Mar 2011)
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