Haystacks

Mon 17 Jan 2011

Route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Blackbeck Tarn - Warnscale Head bothy - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth

Distance: 5.25 miles

Ascent: 1,650ft

Time: 3 hours 10 minutes

With: On own

Notes:

Broken cloud, some sunshine, mild, no wind

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The Scarth Gap path goes below the trees on the right and then across, left, above them

Towards Buttermere from Peggy's Bridge

Haystacks from Peggy's Bridge

Looking back to Gatesgarth from above the landslip

Looking back down the path

Fleetwith Pike

Grasmoor in the distance and Buttermere now far below

Looking across Scarth Gap to Seat (left) and High Crag (right)

Pillar from an unnamed small tarn

High Crag from an unnamed small tarn on Haystacks

Seat and High Crag from Haystacks

Ennerdale from Haystacks summit

Haystacks summit, looking towards Robinson

Looking across Innominate Tarn to Great Gable

Haystacks from Innominate Tarn

The path to Blackbeck Tarn with Green Crag on the left

The Buttermere valley from near the outflow of Blackbeck Tarn

Blackbeck Tarn

Warnscale Head bothy

Warnscale Bottom

Previous Walk: Walla Crag (Sun 9 Jan 2011)

Next Walk: Five Skiddaw Fells (Sat 22 Jan 2011)

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