Route: Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale - Stool End Farm- The Band - The Climbers' Traverse - Great Slab - Bowfell - Bowfell North Top - Ore Gap - Angle Tarn - Rossett Pike - Rossett Gill - Mickleden - Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
Distance: 8.25 miles
Ascent: 3,025ft
Time: 6 hours 25 minutes
With: David Hall and Anne
Notes:
Sunshine and blue sky, hazy, no wind
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Misty in the valley. The road to Stool End Farm with The Band leading onto Bowfell ahead
The Langdale Pikes from the road to Stool End
Stool End Farm
Looking towards Rossett Pike from Stool End Farm
The start of The Band with Crinkle Crags on the left
Stool End Farm and Great Langdale from near the bottom of The Band
The Band with the main path leading to Three Tarns (left skyline)
Having left the main path we pick up a minor one leading up to the start of The Climbers' Traverse
Reaching the start of The climbers' Traverse with the pointed Pike O' Blisco behind
The Climbers' Traverse, Bowfell
Looking back along a section of The Climbers' Traverse
Bowfell Buttress
The waterspout at the foot of Cambridge Crag
The scree slope by the side of the Great Slab
The Great Slab with the Langdale Pikes beyond
The Scafells from Bowfell
Scafell and Scafell Pike from Bowfell
Heading across to Bowfell's north top (a Nuttall if you are ticking) with Esk Pike on the left
Mickleden and the Langdale Pikes from Bowfell's north top
Mickleden
The Scafells from Bowfell's north top
Esk Pike with Great Gable on the right from our descent to Ore Gap
Angle Tarn and Rossett Pike with Langdale Pikes behind from our descent from Ore Gap
Rossett Pike's summit ridge
Great Langdale from the top of Rossett Gill
Pike o'Stickle and Mickleden
Mickleden sheepfold with Rossett Gill behind
Looking back up Mickleden to Rossett Pike
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