Route: Patterdale - Rooking - Crookabeck - Beckstones - Deepdale Bridge - Deepdale - east ridge - Lord's Seat - Gavel Pike - Saint Sunday Crag - Birks - Trough Head - Arnison Crag - Patterdale
Distance: 7.25 miles
Ascent: 2,650ft
Time: 4 hours 40 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Snow on the fells, cold wind on the summit, broken cloud giving some sunshine
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Patterdale Village Store and Post Office
Deepdale Bridge
Lane Head
Sheepfold at the bottom of Coldcove Gill
Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes to the east as we get into the snow
Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Greenhow End (Fairfield) seen across Deepdale
Arnison Crag with Place Fell behind
Gavel Pike ahead from Lord's Seat
Ascending the east ridge
Heading up Gavel Pike
A steep ascent
On Saint Sunday Crag's east ridge
Approaching Gavel Pike's summit
Looking back down Saint Sunday Crag's east ridge from Gavel Pike
Birks with Ullswater and Place Fell beyond from Gavel Pike
Saint Sunday Crag from Gavel Pike
Looking across to Deepdale Hause
Looking back to Gavel Pike
Saint Sunday Crag's summit
Dollywaggon Pike
Looking west from Saint Sunday Crag's summit
The snow has thawed to slush and then frozen to give big patches of sheet ice
Ullswater from the main path
Looking down on Birks
The top of Helvellyn remains in cloud
Looking back up our descent route off Saint Sunday Crag
Gavel Pike and Saint Sunday Crag's east ridge, our ascent route
Heading across the top of Birks
Saint Sunday Crag from Birks
Ullswater and Place Fell from Birks
Blue sky and snow, magic
Looking down on Arnison Crag
Descending towards Trough Head
This wall is followed for much of the descent to Trough Head
Arnison Crag with a snowy Place Fell behind
Hartsop from Arnison Crag's summit
Ullswater from our descent to Patterdale from Arnison Crag
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