Haystacks
Sat 17 Jan 2009
Route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - perched boulder - Blackbeck Tarn - Dubs Quarry - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth
Distance: 5.50 miles
Ascent: 1,700ft
Time: 3 hours
With: On own
Notes:
Overcast, windy at times. The odd sunny moment but the summits of Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Pillar remained in cloud
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High Crag and High Stile with their tops in cloud from Gatesgarth
Peggy's Bridge. The Scarth Gap path goes round the right hand side and then back left above the woodland
Haystacks from Peggy's Bridge over Warnscale Beck
Warnscale Bottom with Fleetwith Pike on the left
Looking back down the Scarth Gap path
Haystacks summit
Haystacks summit tarn, Seat and Gamlin End (High Crag)
Innominate Tarn with Grey Knotts and Brandreth beyond from Haystacks
Buttermere and Crummock Water from Haystacks
Innominate Tarn looking back to Haystacks - Happy Birthday AW
Innominate Tarn
Innominate Tarn
Perched boulder (See Wainwright Haystacks 10)
Blackbeck Tarn
Buttermere with Crummock Water beyond
The stepping stones across Warnscale Beck were underwater making the crossing more interesting
Haystacks from the Dubs Quarry track
Warnscale Bottom and Buttermere from the Dubs Quarry track
The Dubs Quarry track down into the valley
Warnscale Bottom
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