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
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