Crinkle Crags
Sun 20 Jan 2008
Route: Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale - Stool End Farm - Oxendale - Whorneyside Force - Hell Gill - Buscoe Sike - Three Tarns - Crinkle Crags (Long Top) - Red Tarn - Oxendale - Stool End Farm - Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 2,750ft
Time: 5 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall and Peter Burgess
Notes:
Light rain at times, in the cloud from Three Tarns to Red Tarn
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The Band from the start of the road to Stool End Farm
The Langdale Pikes from the Stool End Farm road
Stool End Farm at the foot of The Band
Heading along by Oxendale Beck
Having crossed this footbridge we stayed by the beck to get to the foot of Whorneyside Force rather than keeping on the main path
Whorneyside Force
Whorneyside Force
The entrance to Hell Gill, the path actually goes up the fell side to the left of the gill
The top section of Hell Gill
Hell Gill with Pike o'Blisco almost out of the clouds behind
Heading up by Buscoe Sike
One of the tarns at Three Tarns looking towards Crinkle Crags!
On the Crinkle Crags ridge with Peter adding some scale!
Long Top, Crinkle Crags summit
Heading down towards Red Tarn
Browney Gill
Looking back up the top part of the path from Red Tarn down to Oxendale
Oxendale with the Langdale Pikes behind the foot of The Band
Looking towards Whorneyside Force from Oxendale
Oxendale Beck from the footbridge with Side Pike on the right
Previous Walk: Gowbarrow Fell and Little Mell Fell (Sat 19 Jan 2008)