Route: Bowness car park, Ennerdale - Ennerdale Water - Lingmell - Steeple - Little Scoat Fell - Haycock - Little Gowder Crag - Caw Fell - Ennerdale Water - Bowness car park
Distance: 11.00 miles
Ascent: 3,050ft
Time: 6 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine, cold in the breeze on the summits
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Looking across Ennerdale Water to Crag Fell
Looking up Ennerdale Water to Pillar (left) and the small pointed top of Steeple
Anglers Crag
The wall coming down Crag Fell reflecting in Ennerdale Water
Looking back to Crag Fell as we head up Ennerdale
Irish Bridge, across the River Liza
Ice crystals in Woundell Beck
Ennerdale Water as we ascend Lingmell
Red Pike, High Stile and High Crag with Haystacks on the far right from Lingmell
The ridge up Steeple with Pillar behind from Lingmell
Looking over Lingmell to Ennerdale Water from Steeple's north ridge
High up on Steeple's north ridge
Steeple from Scoat Fell
Scoat Fell's summit. The summit cairn is actually on the wall!
Great Gable from Scoat Fell's summit
The view south from Scoat Fell's summit, not a bad lunch spot!
Looking back to Scoat Fell with Steeple on the left from Haycock
The Scafells from Haycock's summit
Skiddaw and Blencathra in the far distance seen over the High Stile ridge with Steeple's north ridge in front and Scoat Fell on the right from Haycock
Just follow the wall to Little Gowder Crag
Looking back to Little Gowder Crag and Haycock from Caw Fell
We descended the near ridge back into Ennerdale
Fire on Knock Murton
Great Borne and Starling Dodd on the other side of Ennerdale from our descent ridge
Lingmell, our ascent route at the start of the day had been up the skyline, no wonder it felt hard work
Lingmell with Steeple and Scoat Fell above
Pillar, Steeple, Scoat Fell and Haycock seen across Ennerdale Water
Pillar, Steeple, Scoat Fell and Haycock from Ennerdale
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