Route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Blackbeck Tarn - Dubs Quarry - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth
Distance: 5.25 miles
Ascent: 1,650ft
Time: 3 hours
With: On own
Notes:
Overcast, high fells in cloud, not much wind. Some blue sky at the end of the walk.
Area
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The Buttermere Pines with Haystacks behind
The flood damage of November 2009 has just been repaired
Fleetwith Pike
Looking back down the Scarth Gap path, Buttermere is now far below
Haystacks summit tarn and cairn
Haystacks other summit cairn, Great Gable in the cloud
Looking back to Haystacks from a partly frozen Innominate Tarn
Pillar in cloud but Pillar Rock can just be seen
The way ahead from Innominate Tarn, Green Crag on the left
Blackbeck Tarn
Buttermere with Crummock Water beyond, and a bit of blue sky
Warnscale Bottom with a now cloud free High Crag on the left
Blue skies over Buttermere
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