Scafell Pike via the Piers Gill path
Fri 26 Sep 2008
Route: Wasdale Head - Lingmell Beck - Piers Gill path - Middleboot Knotts - Broad Crag Col - Scafell Pike - Lingmell - west ridge - Wasdale Head
Distance: 7.00 miles
Ascent: 3,280ft
Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Sunny but thick haze. Cold breeze on the top.
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Pillar from Wasdale Head
Great Gable
Looking back down Lingmell Beck towards Wasdale Head and Yewbarrow
The bottom of Piers Gill
Piers Gill turning to the right
Greta Gill
Piers Gill
The path follows the left bank of Piers Gill
Looking back down
A nameless gill off Lingmell joining Piers Gill
Piers Gill
Piers Gill
Kirk Fell and Great Gable from the path by Piers Gill
The head of Piers Gill crossed by the Corridor Route. The low point on the skyline is Broad Crag Col
Round How with Great End behind from the summit of Middleboot Knotts
Piers Gill from the Corridor Route with Great Gable behind Middleboot Knotts on the right
The final scree slope up to Broad Crag col
Looking back down the scree slope to Lingmell
Pen and Little Narrowcove from Broad Crag col
The route to Scafell Pike's summit from Broad Crag col
Summit photo!
The plaque in the summit cairn, Scafell Pike
Walkers descending to Broad Crag col with Ill Crag beyond
Lingmell from Scafell Pike
Great End and Broad Crag
Looking north to Styhead Tarn from the descent off Scafell Pike to Lingmell col
Lingmell
Lingmell's summit cairn
Looking down into Piers Gill from Lingmell's summit
Pillar and Kirk Fell from the cairn north of Lingmell's summit
Great Gable
The Mosedale Horseshoe
Wastwater from Lingmell's west ridge
Scafell Pike looking lower than Scafell and the Brown Tongue route up to Hollow Stones
The path back down to Wasdale Head
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