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12th September 2009 - Great Gable

Walk Details

Distance walked: 5.5 miles

Total ascent: 2716 ft

OS map used: OL4 - The English Lakes, North-western area

Time taken: 6 hrs

Route description: Seathwaite-Sourmilk Gill-Gillercomb-Green Gable-Windy Gap-Great Gable-Sty Head-Stockley Bridge-Seathwaite

A walk up Great Gable on a beautiful day. I left Seathwaite and took the path up by Sourmilk Gill and into Gillercomb and then upto the summit of Green Gable. I then crossed Windy Gap and made my way to the summit of Great Gable. From Great Gable I then used the Breast Route to make my way down to Sty Head from where I took the path down by Styhead Gill down to Stockley Bridge and then Seathwaite.

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Borrowdale as I start the climb up by Sourmilk Gill
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and higher up
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and from the top of Sourmilk Gill
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Making my way up to the summit of Green Gable. Raven Crag and Gillercomb below with Skiddaw and Blencathra in the distance.
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Base Brown below with the Helvellyn range in the distance
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Seathwaite Fell and the Glaramara ridge. You can see the tops of Harrison Stickle and Pike o'Stickle over the Glaramara ridge.
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On the summit of Green Gable. The view down Ennerdale with Pillar on one side and the High Stile ridge on the other.
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Kirk Fell and Pillar
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Skiddaw and Blencathra to the north
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The view across the central fells to the Helvellyn range
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The High Stile range with Ennerdale on one side and Buttermere and Crummock Water on the other
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Harrison Stickle and Pike o'Stickle over the Glaramara and Allen Crags ridge
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On the summit of Great Gable. The view across to the Langdale Pikes, Allen Crags and Great End.
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Ennerdale and the High Stile range
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The view to Grasmoor, Crag Hill, Grisedale Pike, the northwestern fells and Skiddaw
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The view across Rosthwaite Fell to Ullscarf and the central fells and then Helvellyn and the eastern fells
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Skiddaw and Blencathra to the north
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The classic view of Wasdale from the Westmorland Cairn
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Borrowdale as I head down to Stockley Bridge and then Seathwaite

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