Route: Buttermere Village - Burtness Wood - Buttermere - Peggy's Bridge - Gatesgarth - Hassness- Buttermere Village
Distance: 4.50 miles
Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Very windy, rain showers and one particularly heavy and painful hail shower
Area
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Haystacks and High Crag seen over the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere village
Sourmilk Gill, the Buttermere one
...and a close up of a very small section of Sourmilk Gill
The path through Burtness Wood
Looking up a very full Buttermere to Fleetwith Pike
Hassness (the white building) below Robinson
Fleetwith Pike and Warnscale Bottom with Haystacks on the far right
Fleetwith Pike
Looking back down Buttermere with Goat Crag above Hassness on the far side
Fleetwith Pike with the bothy on the water's edge
Buttermere and Rannerdale Knotts from Peggy's Bridge
Haystacks from Gatesgarth Farm
Looking across Buttermere to Burtness Comb with High Crag on the left and High Stile on the right
Fleetwith Pike, Green Crag and Haystacks from near Hassness
Looking across Buttermere to High Crag and Burtness Comb
Haystacks can just be made out as another rain shower passes through
Wilkinsyke Farm, Buttermere
Previous Walk: Nan Bield Pass and Kentmere Pike (Sun 25 Nov 2007)