Great Gable Remembrance Day Service
Sun 11 Nov 2007
Route: Honister Pass - Drum House - Moses' Trod - Beck Head - Great Gable - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Gillercomb Head Tarns - Brandreth - Grey Knotts Tarns - Grey Knotts - Honister Pass
Distance: 6.00 miles
Ascent: 2,350ft
Time: 7 hours
With: Members of the OFC and several hundred others
Notes:
Cloud and rain to start, then it started snowing with a cold wind. And then on the summit the clouds broke up and the sun same out to give us great views for the rest of the day.
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Setting off from Honister Pass at 8.15am, heading for Great Gable's summit
The way ahead from the Drum House, the cloud is down and its started to rain
On Moses' Trod with Beck Head just below the cloud
Great Gable from Beck Head
Ascending Great Gable from Beck Head, not much chance of getting lost!
Approaching Great Gable's summit with 20 minutes to spare before the Remembrance Day Service starts
Just part of the crowd at Great Gable's summit from the service
Maureen Linton the FRCC president gave a short address before the two minute silence
Walkers leaving Great Gable's summit heading for Windy Gap
Walkers leaving Great Gable's summit heading for Sty Head
Great Gable summit
Wasdale from the Westmorland Cairn
Zooming in on Wasdale Head
Wasdale from Great Gable
The Fell and Rock Climbing Club's war memorial on Great Gable summit
Green Gable as we head down to Windy Gap
Ennerdale with Pillar on the left and the High Stile ridge on the right from Windy Gap
Rannerdale Knotts catches the sun with Scotland across the Solway Firth in the distance
Leaving Green Gable as we head from Brandreth
Pillar and Ennerdale
Heading past the tarns on the way to Brandreth
Pillar from by one of the tarns at Gillercomb Head
Brandreth's summit
The Buttermere valley from Brandreth
Buttermere with Crummock Water beyond
Just follow the fence from Brandreth to Grey Knotts
Combe Head and Glaramara from one of Grey Knott's tarns
The view east to the Helvellyn ridge as we head down to Honister Pass
The mine buildings at Honister Pass from the steep descent by the fence off Grey Knotts
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