Route: Wasdale Head - Sty Head - Kern Knotts - Great Hell Gate - Great Napes - Little Hell Gate - Beck Head - Great Gable - Breast Route - Sty Head - valley route - Wasdale Head
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 3,000ft
Time: 6 hours 20 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Cloudy, sunny intervals
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Great Gable from near Burnthwaite, Wasdale Head
Looking back towards Yewbarrow from the ascent to Sty Head
Kern Knotts, the start of the south traverse
The traverse heads across to the bottom of The Great Napes, the cliffs in the distance
Tophet Bastion, The Great Napes seen across the screes of Great Hell Gate
Looking up Great Hell Gate
Crossing Great Hell Gate
Wasdale Head from the traverse, Great Gable
The Cat Rock, also called The Sphinx Rock, Great Gable
On the traverse, Great Gable
Looking up Little Hell Gate
Looking down from the Great Gable south traverse
Looking back across Little Hell Gate to two walkers who were heading in the opposite direction to us
Looking down Gavel Neese
The flank of Kirk Fell and the north end of Yewbarrow seen through a break in the cloud
Heading for Beck Head
Gable Crag and the route up Great Gable from Beck Head
Upper Ennerdale, the High Stile ridge, Haystacks and Grasmoor
Ascending Great Gable from Beck Head with Grasmoor in the far distance
The northwestern fells from the ascent of Great Gable
Great Gable summit
The Langdale Pikes: Harrison Stickle and Pike O' Stickle
Looking down on Sty Head from the Breast Route
Styhead Tarn
Great End with the gash of Skew Gill
Looking down the valley towards Wasdale Head
Lingmell Beck
Looking back towards Great Gable with its south face still in cloud
Previous Walk: Pike O'Blisco and Cold Pike (Wed 20 Aug 2003)
Next Walk: Scafell Pike from Wasdale (Mon 25 Aug 2003)