Route: Gatesgarth - Scarth Gap - Black Sail Hut - Tongue - Stone Cove - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Gillercomb Head Tarns - Brandreth - Grey Knotts Tarns - Grey Knotts - Great Round How - Warnscale Head bothy - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth
Distance: 8.75 miles
Ascent: 3,200ft
Time: 5 hours 25 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Very very windy, dry, broken cloud above the tops and some sunshine
Area
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High Stile from Gatesgarth
Haystacks
Buttermere from the Scarth Gap path
Heading for Scarth Gap with Haystacks on the left
Gamlin End (High Crag)
The top of Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Looking Stead from Scarh Gap
Pillar and Pillar Rock
Descending to the head of Ennerdale from Scarth Gap
Looking down Ennerdale to Crag Fell, Ennerdale Water and Bowness Knott
The head of Ennerdale, Green Gable, Windy Gap and Great Gable
Black Sail Hut
Black Sail Hut with High Crag left skyline
Ennerdale from low down on Tongue
Looking up towards Windy Gap
Ennerdale
In Stone Cove heading for Windy Gap
Windy Gap, living up to its name today
Esk Pike, Great End, Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike and Scafell from Green Gable's summit
Brandreth, our next summit
Gillercomb with Base Brown on the right
Green Gable and Great Gable from Brandreth's summit
Too windy a day for reflections, Glaramara from one of Grey Knotts tarns
Grey Knotts eastern and highest top
Grey Knotts eastern top from its western top
Dubs Bottom with Haystacks on the left and Fleetwith Pike on the right. The High Stile ridge beyond Haystacks, Buttermere and Crummock Water
Haystacks and Green Crag
Zooming in on Rannerdale Knotts
Little Round How with part of the Honister Slate Mine workings behind
Warnscale Head bothy, below Green Crag
The view down the Buttermere valley from the bothy
Buttermere seen out the window of Warnscale Head bothy
Warnscale Bottom
Looking back up Warnscale Beck
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