Route: Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale - Stool End Farm - The Band - Three Tarns - Bowfell - Ore Gap - Angle Tarn - Rossett Gill - Mickleden - Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 2,900ft
Time: 5 hours 5 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Overcast, the rain arrived as we descended the Rossett Gill path. Snow on the tops
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The Band with Bowfell on the right and Crinkle Crags on the left from the start of the road to Stool End Farm
Great Langdale from low down on The Band
Crinkle Crags
Bowfell, with the Three Tarns path going up to the left, from The Band
The pointed Pike O'Blisco with Great Knott on the right and Wetherlam behind the Red Tarn gap
Scafell and Scafell Pike from Three Tarns
Ascending above Three Tarns
Looking south to Crinkle Crags from Bowfell
Hard Knott with Harter Fell behind and Upper Eskdale from Bowfell's summit
High Raise with the Helvellyn and Fairfield fells beyond
The tops of the Scafells are now in cloud
Allen Crags and Glaramara from Ore Gap
A snow free Langstrath
Angle Tarn with the Langdale Pikes behind
Angle Tarn with Hanging Knotts behind
Looking across a partly frozen Angle Tarn to Hanging Knotts
Angle Tarn. Ore Gap is the low point on the skyline
Stepping stones across Angle Tarn's outflow
Great Langdale from the top of Rossett Gill
David descending
The packwoman's grave
Pike O'Stickle above Mickleden
Looking back to Bowfell, now in cloud
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