Walk Information
Walk route: Bowness car park, Ennerdale - Rake Beck - Great Borne - Starling Dodd - Little Dodd - Gillflinter Beck - High Gillerthwaite - Ennerdale Water - Bowness car park, Ennerdale
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 2,200ft
Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
With: Anne and David & Jennifer Hall
Conditions: Dull, overcast with a base at 1,750ft. Very windy on the summits
Route Map
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Licence number AL100038401
Photos
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Herdus from near Bowness car park
The view west from the ascent by Rake Beck
Heading up by the beck
Bowness Knott and Ennerdale Water with the higher fells lost in cloud - click on image for a larger version
Goose Bield (Fox Trap) by Rake Beck
High up on the ascent, having climbed the steep section
Great Borne's summit
Starling Dodd's summit
A glimpse of Mellbreak and Crummock Water
Little Dodd's summit
Descending back into Ennerdale
Heading down the High Gillerthwaite - Red Pike path
Part of a high level option on Wainwright's Coast to Coast long distance footpath
The view up Ennerdale with Pillar lost in cloud on the right
Looking across Ennerdale Water to Crag Fell
previous walk - Sun 28 Nov 2004 - Great Calva
next walk - Sun 5 Dec 2004 - Rannerdale Knotts