Great Gable Remembrance Day Service
Sun 11 Nov 2012
Route: Honister Pass - Drum House - Moses' Trod - Beck Head - Great Gable - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Gillercomb Head Tarns - Brandreth - Grey Knotts Tarns - Grey Knotts - Honister Pass
Distance: 6.00 miles
Ascent: 2,350ft
Time: 5 hours
With: Several hundred others
Notes:
Dry but lots of the walk was in cloud
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Looking back down on Honister Pass
Drum House
The way ahead from the Drum House, into the cloud
...and looking back
A glimpse of Buttermere
Wasdale from Beck Head
The way up Gable from Beck Head
The short address before the two minute silence
The Fell and Rock Climbing Club's war memorial on Great Gable summit
Wasdale from the Westmorland Cairn
Wasdale
Looking steeply down on Tophet Bastion and the upper wall of the Napes, with the scree of Great Hell Gate running down to the left
Heading down to Windy Gap
Aaron Slack and Styhead Tarn
Looking back to Windy Gap as I, and a few others, head up Green Gable
Gillercomb
Pillar from one of the tarns at Gillercomb Head
Looking back to Green Gable and Great Gable
Brandreth summit
Pillar and Ennerdale Water
Haystacks and the High Stile ridge, Buttermere and Crummock Water
Grey Knotts
The mine buildings at Honister Pass from the steep descent by the fence off Grey Knotts
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