Great Gable from Seathwaite
Sun 9 Sep 2001
Route: Seathwaite, Borrowdale - Sourmilk Gill - Base Brown - Green Gable - Windy Gap - Great Gable - Sty Head - Styhead Tarn - Stockley Bridge - Seathwaite
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 2,870ft
Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Dry, overcast, cloud above fells all day, windy, strong at times, especially early on.
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Base Brown and Sourmilk Gill from Seathwaite, Borrowdale
Top of Sourmilk Gill, Borrowdale
The Hanging Stone, Base Brown
Seathwaite from Base Brown's north ridge
Dale Head and High Spy from the north ridge of Base Brown
Base Brown, upper section of north ridge
Anne approaching Base Brown summit
Panorama from Base Brown's summit: Dale Head to Dollywaggon Pike
The way ahead...The Gables from Base Brown
The Scafells from the ridge between Base Brown and Green Gable
The Grasmoor fells from the ridge between Base Brown and Green Gable
Buttermere Valley
Kirk Fell and Pillar with Red Pike, Scoat Fell and Black Crag beyond
Ennerdale from Green Gable summit
Great Gable from Green Gable
Langdale Pikes, Allen Crags, Bowfell, Esk Pike and Sprinkling Tarn from Green Gable
Panorama from Green Gable summit: Langdale Pikes to the route up Great Gable from Windy Gap
Langdale Pikes, Allen Crags, Bowfell, Esk Pike and Great End with Styhead Tarn and Sprinkling Tarn from Windy Gap
Looking back to Green Gable from the slopes of Great Gable
Anne at Great Gable summit
FRCC war memorial on Great Gable's summit
The Scafells from Great Gable
Wasdale from Great Gable summit
Coming down the 'Tourist Route' off Great Gable to Sty Head
Sty Head Mountain Rescue Kit with Lingmell behind
Wasdale Head and Yewbarrow from Sty Head
Styhead Tarn and the route back to Borrowdale
Borrowdale from above Taylorgill Force
Stockley Bridge, Grains Gill, Borrowdale
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