Great Gable from Honister Hause
Thu 3 Mar 2011
Route: Honister Pass - Drum House - Moses' Trod - Beck Head - Great Gable - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Gillercomb Head Tarns - Brandreth - Grey Knotts Tarns - Grey Knotts - Honister Pass
Distance: 6.00 miles
Ascent: 2,350ft
Time: 3 hours 50 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine, little wind, my jacket stayed in my rucsac for the whole walk
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Looking back to Honister Hause
Pillar on the left, the very top of Haystacks centre and High Crag & High Stile on the right from the Drum House
High Crag and High Stile with Buttermere and Crummock Water far below
Ennerdale, Pillar on the left and the High Stile ridge on the right
Pillar
Haystacks, High Crag and High Stile
Looking over Beck Head to Kirk Fell
Kirk Fell with Pillar behind from the climb to Great Gable's summit
Wasdale from the Westmorland Cairn
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
Hazy to the south
Green Gable with Base Brown behind as I head for Windy Gap
Windy Gap and Green Gable
Ennerdale from Green Gable's summit
Looking over Gillercomb Head to Brandreth
Gillercomb
Towards Pillar from one of the small tarns at Gillercomb Head
Brandreth's summit
Follow the fence to Grey Knotts
The Glaramara to Allen Crags ridge with Bowfell and Esk Pike on the far right
Grey Knott's summit
Honister Hause with Dale Head behind from the descent off Grey Knotts
Previous Walk: Angletarn Pikes, Angle Tarn and Brock Crags (Sat 26 Feb 2011)
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