Route: Blencathra Centre, Threlkeld - Blease Fell - Knowe Crags - Gategill Fell Top - Blencathra - Atkinson Pike - Mungrisdale Common - Glenderterra - Blencathra Centre
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,050ft
Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
A fourth temperature inversion day in a row. The top of the cloud was at approximately 2,400ft with blue sky and sunshine above.
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Leaving the car park next to the Blencathra Centre
A heavy hoarfrost on the ascent of Blease Fell
Skiddaw as we break out of the cloud
Walkers heading down Blease Fell
The Helvellyn ridge from Blease Fell
Gategill Fell Top from Knowe Crags
Knowe Crags
Skiddaw from Gategill Fell Top
Knowe Crags from Gategill Fell Top
Gategill Fell
The Helvellyn ridge from Gategill Fell Top
Knowe Crags from Gatesgill Fell Top
Skiddaw Little Man and Skiddaw
Hallsfell Top, Blencathra's summit
Looking back to Gategill Fell Top
Hall's Fell ridge
Gategill Fell
Blencathra's summit
Blencathra's summit
Scales Fell from Blencathra's summit with the North Pennines in the distance
Skiddaw from Blencathra's summit tarn
The white cross in the saddle between Hallsfell Top and Atkinson Pike
Mungrisdale Common is somewhere down there
The cairn at Mungrisdale Common's 'summit'
Some map and compass work got us to the Cloven Stone
The slate slabs bridge across Roughten Gill
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