| A superb sunny day walking up to Great Gable. | |||
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Date: | 26th August 2011 | |
| Start Location: | Seathwaite | ||
| Time Started: | 09:10 | ||
| Duration: | 4 Hours 15 Minutes | ||
| Distance: | 10.5km - 6.52 Miles | ||
| Ascent (m/ft): | 964m (3163ft) | ||
| Highest Point: | Great Gable (899m/2949ft) | ||
| Parking: | Roadside at Seathwaite Farm | ||
| Weather: | Starting Sunny - Ends Cloudy | ||
| Difficulty: | Difficult | ||
| Seathwaite - Taylorgill Force - Styhead Tarn - Great Gable - Westmorland Cairn - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb - Sourmilk Gill - Seathwaite | |||
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| Sourmilk Gill from the roadside parking at Seathwaite Farm. This will be my route of descent later on. | |||
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| The path I followed was the one skirting Base Brown that takes you up to Taylorgill Force. The reason for this is that I have walked within 100m of Taylorgill Force on at least two occaisions and never seen it! Today that was to change! | |||
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| The view back down Borrowdale to the central fells and Blencathra. | |||
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| Rocks and trees on Seathwaite Fell. | |||
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| And the beautiful Taylorgill Force. The next section of the walk was a bit rough and involved some light scrambling as I worked my way around to the top of the waterfall. | |||
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| Taylorgill Force from further round. | |||
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| A rather large gully on Base Brown - possibly a good scramble up? | |||
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| Styhead Tarn and Great End. | |||
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| From the same place as the last photo there is also a view up to Great and Green Gable. The gap in the middle is Windy Gap. | |||
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| Great End, the Scafells and Styhead Tarn. | |||
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| Lingmell over Styhead Pass. | |||
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| Sparkling Styhead Tarn. Time to start the steep section of ascent... | |||
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| Styhead Tarn from the ascent to Great Gable. | |||
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| The Langdale Pikes not so far away and a small section of Windermere. | |||
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| Now on the summit of Great Gable and happy its clear of cloud! | |||
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| The Scafells from Great Gable. Time to head down to the Westmorland Cairn. | |||
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| The Westmorland Cairn and Wast Water. | |||
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| Great Napes and Great Hell Gate from the Westmorland Cairn, quite a drop I tell ya! | |||
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| The Westmorland Cairn. | |||
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| And an uninterrupted view of Wast Water and Wasdale. Time to head back to the summit for something to eat and then onto Green Gable. | |||
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| I took this photo from Windy Gap inbetween Great and Green Gable. I do love how colourful it looks down Ennerdale. | |||
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| The mighty Pillar. Next day off work and its weather like this... I'll be up there! | |||
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| The High Stile ridge. | |||
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| Green Gable summit cairn and view. | |||
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| Gable Crag from Green Gable. | |||
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| Buttermere and Crummock Water over Haystacks. The route of descent from here took me down to Gillercomb, which is a hanging valley above Seathwaite. | |||
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| Gillercomb, the hanging valley with Gillercomb Crag to the left. | |||
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| Sourmilk Gill Waterfalls. | |||
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| And a wide shot of the waterfall. | |||
