Route: Seatoller - Mountain View cottages/Stands Bridge - Thornythwaite Fell - Glaramara - High House Tarn - Allen Crags - Lower Esk Hause - Sprinkling Tarn - Sty Head - Great Gable - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb - Sourmilk Gill - Seathwaite
Distance: 9.50 miles
Ascent: 4,300ft
Time: 7 hours
With: Peter Huzan (and Anne until Sty Head)
Notes:
Hazy sunshine, windy at times
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Thornythwaite Fell, our line of ascent
Combe Gill looking towards Comb Head
The view north from Thornythwaite Fell with Skiddaw and Derwent Water in the distance
Honister Crag and Dale Head from Thornythwaite Fell
Anne ascending the short scramble onto Glaramara's summit
The Helvellyn ridge to the east from Glaramara
Pike O' Blisco on the left and Bowfell on the right with the Coniston Fells in the distance from Glaramara's summt
Great Gable and Green Gable with Pillar behind from Glaramara
Bowfell, Esk Pike, Allen Crags, Ill Crag, Great End, Lingmell, Seatallan, Great Gable and Green Gable from Glaramara
The Langdale Pikes from High House Tarn
Looking back to Glaramara from the ascent of Allen Crags
Great End from Allen Crags
Great Gable and Green Gable from Sprinkling Tarn
Styhead Tarn from the Breast Route up Great Gable
Great End, Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike, Scafell and Lingmell from our ascent of Great Gable
Looking back to Sprinkling Tarn with Allen Crags behind from Great Gable
Wastwater from the Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Looking down on Wasdale Head from the Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
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
Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike and Scafell with Lingmell in front from Great Gable
Green Gable from Great Gable
Looking across to Allen Crags and Great End from the route up Green Gable from Windy Gap
Kirk Fell and Pillar from Green Gable
Ennerdale, the High Stile ridge, Haystacks and the Buttermere valley from Green Gable's summit
Kirk Fell to Grasmoor from Green Gable's summit
Gillercomb Buttress (Raven Crag)
Gillercomb
Looking down on Seathwaite from the top of Sourmilk Gill
Previous Walk: Murton Fell and High Cup Nick (Sun 21 Aug 2005)
Next Walk: Sail plus (Sat 10 Sep 2005)