Route: Brackenclose, Wasdale - Illgill Head - Whin Rigg - east side of Greathall Gill - Wastwater Screes - Wastwater - Brackenclose
Distance: 8.50 miles
Ascent: 2,050ft
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Overcast to start but cloud breaking at times. Rain showers as we headed along the screes
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Illgill Head from near Brackenclose
Kirk Fell on the left and Lingmell on the right from the Wasdale Head to Boot (Eskdale) old corpse road
Burnmoor Tarn with the slopes of Great How and the pointed tops of Harter Fell and Caw behind from the ascent of Illgill Head
Yewbarrow from Illgill Head
Wasdale Head from Illgill Head
Northerly panorama from Illgill Head
Great Gable, Lingmell and the Scafells (in cloud) from Illgill Head's summit cairn at the 604m spot height and not the 609m one
Looking down on Wastwater from the Illgill Head to Whin Rigg ridge
Looking back towards Illgill Head from the ascent of Whin Rigg
Northerly panorama from Whin Rigg's summit
Wastwater from the descent by Greathall Gill
The start of The Screes path
The Wastwater Screes
Looking across Wastwater to Middle Fell
Wastwater Screes
The Wastwater Screes
The Wastwater Screes
The Wastwater Screes
Yewbarrow from The Screes 'path'
Looking across Wastwater to Yewbarrow
Lingmell, Pikes Crag (Scafell Pike) seen just to the left of Green How and Scafell
Kirk Fell and Great Gable from near Wasdale Head Hall Farm
Looking across Wastwater to the hardest section of The Screes
Looking up Wastwater towards Wasdale Head
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