Branstree and Selside Pike
Sun 21 Jan 2007
Route: Mardale Head - Gatescarth Pass - Branstree - Branstree Tarn - High Howes - Selside Pike - Old Corpse Road - Haweswater lakeside path - Mardale Head
Distance: 5.50 miles
Ascent: 1,800ft
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall and Anne
Notes:
Sunny intervals and sleet/snow showers
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Looking across Haweswater to Kidsty Pike
Heading up the track to Gatescarth Pass from Mardale Head
The Mardale Head side of Gatescarth Pass
Crags on the side of Harter Fell
Upper Longsleddale and Goat Scar from our ascent of Branstree
Ascending Branstree from Gatescarth Pass, just follow the fence
High Street from Branstree
Harter Fell from Branstree
Branstree summit
High Howes from the lower of the two cairns on Artle Crag
The larger of the two nameless tarns between Branstree and High Howes
Selside Pike's summit shelter / cairn
Looking down into Swindale
Riggindale with High Street on the left and Kidsty Pike and High Raise on the right
Hare Shaw from Selside End
Mardale Head and The Rigg from one of the ruins next to the Old Corpse Road
Trees catching some sunlight with Castle Crag on the far side of Haweswater
Woodfell Gill
A full Haweswater and The Rigg from Mardale Head
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