Great Gable Remembrance Day Service

Sun 12 Nov 2006

Route: Seathwaite, Borrowdale - Sourmilk Gill - Base Brown - Green Gable - Windy Gap - Great Gable - Sty Head - Styhead Tarn - Stockley Bridge - Seathwaite

Distance: 6.25 miles

Ascent: 2,870ft

Time: 5 hours 30 minutes

With: David & Jennifer Hall and several hundred others

Notes:

Tops in cloud, poor visibility, rain showers on the way up and back but not at the summit.

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Sourmilk Gill, Borrowdale

Looking back down on Seathwaite from our ascent by Sourmilk Gill

Top waterfall, Sourmilk Gill, Borrowdale

Walkers heading through Gillercomb

The Hanging Stone, Base Brown

Looking across to Seathwaite Fell with Esk Pike in cloud behind Allen Crags and Great End on the far right

Upper Borrowdale from Base Brown's north ridge

Looking across to Hind Crag on Glaramara

Borrowdale from Base Brown

Walkers descending to Windy Gap from Green Gable

Walkers waiting for 11am and the start of the Remembrance Service at Great Gable's summit

Walkers waiting for 11am and the start of the Remembrance Service at Great Gable's summit

A short address was given by Paddy O'Neill, a past president of the FRCC, followed by a two minute silence

FRCC war memorial on Great Gable's summit

Heading down to Sty Head Pass off Great Gable

The Band, Great End from Styhead Tarn

Borrowdale from Styhead Gill

Stockley Bridge

Heading back to Seathwaite

Seathwaite, Borrowdale

Previous Walk: Latrigg (Sat 11 Nov 2006)

Next Walk: A Bannerdale Round (Sat 18 Nov 2006)

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