Route: Brotherilkeld, Eskdale - River Esk - Taw House - Scale Bridge - Sampson's Stones - Great Moss - Pen - Rough Crag - Scafell Pike - Mickledore - Rakes Progress (Climbers Traverse) - Lord's Rake - Scafell - Long Green - Slight Side - Catcove Beck - Taw House - River Esk - Brotherilkeld
Distance: 10.00 miles
Ascent: 3,900ft
Time: 8 hours
With: David Hall and Andy Wallace
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine, becoming more hazy
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Slight Side from the bottom of Hardknott Pass at Brotherilkeld
Harter Fell, Eskdale
Slight Side and the top of Scafell Pike and Ill Crag come into view
Esk Pike, the pointed top of Bowfell and Crinkle Crags
Looking back over Damas Dubs to Harter Fell
Scafell Pike and Pen in front of Ill Crag
Looking towards Esk Hause
Scafell Pike, Pen and Ill Crag
Looking over the River Esk and Scar Lathing to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags
Scafell Pike and Ill Crag
Long Green with Cam Spout Crag on the right
Looking over Great Moss to Scafell Pike and Ill Crag
Great Moss
One of the Sampson's Stones
Great Moss
Scafell Pike from Sampson's Stones
Great Moss
Cam Spout, not much water today
Pen on top of Dow Crag (Esk Buttress)
Looking back down on Great Moss as we start the ascent of Pen
Our line of ascent up Pen, it does not look steep from this angle!
Great Moss from above
Pen's summit with Ill Crag behind
Scafell from Pen's summit
Scafell Pike from Pen's summit
Little Narrowcove and Broad Crag from Pen's summit
Ill Crag from Pen's summit
Bedding structures in the volcaniclastic rocks of the Seathwaite Fell Formation, Pen's summit
Our route up Scafell Pike from Pen
Looking back down on Pen from our ascent of Scafell Pike
Little Narrowcove and Broad Crag
Ill Crag
Ascending Scafell Pike from Pen
Scafell Pike's summit
Great Gable and Styhead Tarn from Scafell Pike's summit
Scafell and Mickledore from Scafell Pike
Mickledore with Broad Stand straight ahead and Lord's Rake on the far right
The climbers traverse (Rakes Progress) under the crags leading to Lord's Rake from Mickledore
The first section of Lord's Rake
Ascending Lord's Rake
Ascending Lord's Rake
Climbing under the boulder at the top of the first section of Lord's Rake
The second rise from the first, Lord's Rake
Looking back to the top of the first section from the top of the second, Lord's Rake
The third and final up section of Lord's Rake
Looking back to the 'middle top' of Lord's Rake
Scafell Pike from Scafell with Symonds Knott on the far left of the photo
Long Green and Slight Side from Scafell
Looking down on Great Moss
Scafell from Long Green
Scafell, Long Green, Scafell Pike and Ill Crag from Slight Side's summit
Harter Fell from the descent off Slight Side
Looking back to Slight Side from near Catcove Beck
Looking across Eskdale to Hard Knott
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