Great Gable from Honister Pass
Sun 19 Feb 2006
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 - Drum House - Honister Pass
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 2,350ft
Time: 4 hours 45 minutes
With: David & Jennifer Hall and Anne
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine to start with cloud building.
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Looking back down on Honister Pass with a snowy Helvellyn ridge in the distance
Pillar on the left and High Crag and High Stile on the right from the Drum House
Looking across Dubs Bottom to Pillar, Haystacks, High Crag and High Stile
Zooming in on Buttermere, Crummock Water and Mellbreak
Haystacks and the High Stile ridge, Blackbeck Tarn, Crummock Water and Buttermere
Westerly panorama from Moses' Trod. Pillar, Ennerdale, High Stile ridge, Buttermere and the Grasmoor fells
Pillar and Ennerdale
Ennerdale
Wasdale from our ascent of Great Gable from Beck Head
Kirk Fell from Great Gable
The steep climb up from Beck Head to Great Gable's summit
Wasdale from the Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Leaving Great Gable's summit for Windy Gap, Allen Crags ahead
Green Gable from Great Gable
Gable Crag from Green Gable
Allen Crags, Bowfell, Esk Pike, Great End, Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike and Scafell from Green Gable's summit
Heading for Brandreth from Green Gable
Looking back to Green Gable and Great Gable
Brandreth's summit
Looking towards Great End and Great Gable from one of the Grey Knotts' tarns
Grey Knotts' summit tor
Heading back down the tramway to Honister Pass
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