| Beautiful sunshine around the lakes today with crisp white snow above 600m. The sort of day you dream about during the winter months! | ||||
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Date: | 30th January 2012 | Ascent (m/ft): | 1142m (3747ft) |
| Start Location: | Buttermere | Highest Point: | Red Pike (755m/2477ft) | |
| Time Started: | 11:30 | Parking: | National Trust at Buttermere | |
| Duration: | 4 Hours 55 Minutes | Weather: | Mostly Sunny and clear | |
| Distance: | 16.6km - 10.31 Miles |
Difficulty: | Difficult | |
| Buttermere - Old Burtness - Bleaberry Tarn - Red Pike - Starling Dodd (199) - Great Borne (200) - Steel Brow - Mosedale - Scale Force - Buttermere | ||||
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| Grasmoor (looking very white!) and Whiteless Pike from the path to the lakeshore. | ||||
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| Buttermere. | ||||
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| The Grasmoor/Crag Hill group of fells. The original plan for todays walk was to head onto High Stile and then High Crag, but seeing as it was such a nice day I changed my mind and opted for a longer walk to take in two new peaks. | ||||
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| Sail and Knott Rigg. | ||||
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| A panorama over Buttermere. Click to see larger version. | ||||
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| Bleaberry Tarn panorama - again, click to see larger version (1.1Mb). | ||||
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| Bleaberry Tarn - partly frozen on the left. | ||||
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| Dodd. Next time I'm up here I'll have to head over to see the view from there. | ||||
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| Crampons and Ice Axe needed for the steep climb up to Red Pike, and for a bit more of a challenge I went up this gully. | ||||
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| Red Pike summit cairn. | ||||
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| The legendary Pillar. | ||||
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| Scafell Pike and Sca Fell separated by Mickledore. | ||||
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| High Stile... now do I or don't I?... Not today. | ||||
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| Grasmoor and a distant Blencathra from Red Pike. | ||||
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| The Scafells, Piller, Scoat Fell and Haycock. | ||||
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| My route over to Starling Dodd. | ||||
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| Starling Dodd summit cairn with a distant view back to Red Pike and High Stile. | ||||
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| Pillar, with Pillar Rock very well defined just off centre right. | ||||
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| Green and Great Gable (the other option for todays walk). | ||||
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| A long view down Ennerdale to Great Gable, Pillar to the right. | ||||
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| The ridge of Long Crag up to Steeple. | ||||
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| A sunlit summit fo Starling Dodd. | ||||
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| Clough Head and the Pennines only just visible to the left. | ||||
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| The Loweswater Fells. | ||||
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| A view back over Starling Dodd to Red Pike and High Stile from Scaw Well. | ||||
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| Great Borne summit shelter and trig column. | ||||
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| Floutern Crag above Floutern Tarn. | ||||
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| Mosedale. | ||||
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| Whiteless Pike. | ||||
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| I was quite impressed by this. It doesn't look much, but behind mere are several mini craters in the fellside. This rock must have fallen and impacted here creating this mess. | ||||
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| And if that wasn't dramatic enough this huge landslip cut right across too. | ||||
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| Scale Force. | ||||
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| A Hercules aircraft which just flew over very low. | ||||