Grey Friar from Wrynose Pass
Sun 12 Oct 2014
Route: Wrynose Pass - Wet Side Edge - Hell Gill Pike - Little Carrs - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Wet Side Edge - Wrynose Pass
Distance: 4.75 miles
Ascent: 1,750ft
Time: 2 hours 45 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Lots of blue sky and sunshine, no wind. In cloud for the last bit.
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Looking over Wrynose Pass to Cold Pike
Cloud in Little Langdale
Wrynose Bottom with Harter Fell and Hard Knott in the distance
Looking back down Wet Side Edge
Pike O'Blisco
Swirl How and Great Carrs
Greenburn inversion
Crinkle Crags and Bowfell
Windermere is under a sea of cloud
Looking across to Grey Friar
Great Carrs summit cairn
Pike O'Blisco with the Langdale Pikes beyond
The Scafells are under cloud
Halifax Bomber crash memorial, Great Carrs
Looking back to Great Carrs as I head up Swirl How
Swirl How's large summit cairn
Grey Friar from Fairfield
The 'Matterhorn Rock' on Grey Friar
Cloud still hides the Scafells
Harter Fell
Levers Hawse
Fairfield and Great Carrs
Heading back to Wet Side Edge as the cloud starts to rise
Looking back to Grey Friar
Entering the cloud of Wet Side Edge
Three Shire Stone at the top of Wrynose Pass
Previous Walk: Circuit of Buttermere (Sat 4 Oct 2014)
Next Walk: Some back o' Skidda fells (Tue 14 Oct 2014)