Haystacks

Thu 17 Jan 2013

Route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Blackbeck Tarn - Dubs Quarry - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth

Distance: 5.25 miles

Ascent: 1,650ft

Time: 3 hours 10 minutes

With: On own

Notes:

Overcast but little wind

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The Buttermere Pines and a reflection of Haystacks

Towards Buttermere from Peggy's Bridge

Looking across to Fleetwith Pike

Looking back down the Scarth Gap path, Buttermere is now far below

Haystacks with Scarth Gap to the right

The Grasmoor fells and Robinson

Great Gable and Kirk Fell from Scarth Gap

Buttermere and Crummock Water

Haystacks summit tarn

Pillar from Haystacks summit

High Crag from Haystacks summit

Pillar and a nuclear free Ennerdale, long may it remain so!

Innominate Tarn (frozen on left) and Great Gable from Haystacks

Great Gable from Innominate Tarn

A frozen Innominate Tarn

Pillar from Innominate Tarn

Across Innominate Tarn to Haystacks

Frozen

The Buttermere valley from Black Beck

Over Blackbeck Tarn to Green Gable, Great Gable and Kirk Fell

Buttermere with Crummock Water beyond

Haystacks from the Dubs Quarry track

Warnscale Bottom below

The path down

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