Haystacks and Fleetwith Pike
Sun 13 Jul 2003
Route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Blackbeck Tarn - Green Crag - Warnscale Head bothy - Dubs Quarry - Fleetwith Pike - Fleetwith Edge - Gatesgarth
Distance: 5.25 miles
Ascent: 2,250ft
Time: 5 hours 45 minutes
With: Anne and Roger & Ann Hiley
Notes:
Hot, sunny, not a cloud in the sky
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Haystacks from near Gatesgarth
The path up to Scarth Gap from Buttermere
Fleetwith Pike
Looking back down the path from near Scarth Gap with the Grasmoor fells in the distance
Gamlin End, High Crag and the Buttermere valley from the ascent of Haystacks
Looking across Ennerdale to Pillar
Green Gable, Great Gable and Kirk Fell from Haystacks' summit tarn
Haystacks summit
360 Panorama from Haystacks' summit
Looking across Innominate Tarn to Green Gable and Great Gable
Roger on the perched boulder, Haystacks
Looking back across Blackbeck Tarn to the perched boulder (right of centre on the near ridge)
Haystacks from Green Crag
Warnscale Bottom and Buttermere from one of the old quarry buildings
Haystacks from a old quarry hut, now a bothy
Haystacks, High Crag and High Stile from Dubs Hut (Bothy)
Ascending Fleetwith Pike from Dubs Quarry with Great Gable behind
High Crag and High Stile from Fleetwith Pike's summit
360 Panorama from Fleetwith Pike's summit
Looking down on Buttermere from the top of Fleetwith Pike's north west ridge
Looking down on Buttermere from the top of Fleetwith Pike's north west ridge
Buttermere valley from the descent off Fleetwith Pike
Buttermere valley from the descent off Fleetwith Pike
Looking back up Fleetwith Pike from near the bottom of the ridge
Memorial to Fanny Mercer who died from a fall while descending Fleetwith Pike in 1887
Previous Walk: Dovedale and Dove Crag (Sat 12 Jul 2003)
Next Walk: Bowscale Fell and Bannerdale Crags (Sat 26 Jul 2003)