Walk Information
Walk route: Wasdale Head - Sty Head - Breast Route - Great Gable - Breast Route - Sty Head - Wasdale Head
Distance: 6.00 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 4 hours 15 minutes
With: Anne
Conditions: Great Gable was clear of cloud and in sunshine but many of the surrounding fells, including the Scafells, where hidden by cloud
Route Map
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Photos
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Looking up Wastwater to Great Gable
Crossing Gable Beck on route to Sty Head
Great Napes on Great Gable in sunshine
Yewbarrow with Wasdale Head still in shade
The stretcher box at Sty Head with Lingmell behind
Heading up the Breast Route with Styhead Tarn below
The Fell and Rock Climbing Club's war memorial on Great Gable summit
Kirk Fell
Kirk Fell, Ennerdale in shade and the High Stile ridge
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.
From Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Green Gable with Base Brown beyond as we head back down the Breast Route
Looking back up towards the summit
Great Napes on the left and Kern Knotts on the right
Looking down on Wasdale Head
A rescue helicopter, out training, passing in front of Piers Gill
Great Gable from the Wasdale Head Inn
previous walk - Fri 10 Dec 2004 - Whin Rigg, Illgill Head and Miterdale
next walk - Fri 17 Dec 2004 - High Rigg and Castlerigg Stone Circle