A very wet and boggy walk around the Central Fells. | ||||
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Date: | 16th October 2011 | Ascent (m/ft): | 1097m (3599ft) |
Start Location: | Stonethwaite | Highest Point: | High Raise (762m/2500ft) | |
Time Started: | 11:15 | Parking: | Roadside at Stonethwaite | |
Duration: | 5 Hours 20 Minutes | Weather: | Mostly Cloudy - Light Rain | |
Distance: | 17.6km - 10.93 Miles |
Difficulty: | Difficult | |
Stonethwaite - Heron Crag - Eagle Crag (180) - Sergeant's Crag (181) - Low White Stones - High Raise - Low White Stones - Greenup Edge - Ullscarf (182) - Greenup Edge - Lining Crag - Greenup Gill - Stonethwaite | ||||
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The weather today was meant to improve from early afternoon, and happily it did! But I had my fair share of rain and cold wind for at least the first two hours today. This photo shows Eagle Crag from the very start of the walk. | ||||
And a wide shot of Eagle Crag with the Stonethwaite campsite in the foreground. | ||||
Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag. My route of ascent follows the wall on the left up to the crags and head up the gully in the middle of the crag. | ||||
Greenup Gill from the footbridge allowing access to Langstrath. | ||||
Greenup Gill from just below the crags. | ||||
Langstrath Beck from the top of the gully. | ||||
Sergeants Crag and Langstrath. | ||||
The small cairn on Eagle Crag with the great view north to Borrowdale. | ||||
Sergeants Crag to the south and High Raise to the left. | ||||
Sergeant's Crag summit cairn. Time to head up to High Raise, which was ok to begin with be after the path disappeared it was a tad annoying. | ||||
A sunlit Sergeants and Eagle Crag with Skiddaw to the far north. | ||||
The far tip of the Langstrath Valley. | ||||
Pike O'Stickle getting ever closer. I think on the next dry, good day I'll head up there. | ||||
Sergeant's Crag and the ridge to Eagle Crag. You can see from this photo that the cloud is starting to lift. | ||||
Sunlit Castle Crag in Borrowdale. | ||||
Summit Trig. Col on High Raise. | ||||
Here I'm sitting in the shelter on High Raise to get out of the strong wind and I still had a view of Fairfield and St Sunday Crag. | ||||
The grassy, boggy slopes of Ullscarf. | ||||
Fleetwith Pike over Rosthwaite Fell. | ||||
The cloud has risen and broken even more making most summits cloud free and allowing lots of lovely sunshine to get through. | ||||
Ullscarf summit cairn. Time to head back to Greenup Edge and take the path down Greenup Gill. | ||||
Sun rays over Langstrath and Esk Pike. | ||||
Looking down Greenup Gill from the top of Lining Crag. | ||||
Greenup Gill with the sun out. | ||||
The view back up the Greenup Gill path to Lining Crag. | ||||
Eagle Crag. | ||||
Eagle and Sergeant's Crag just before finishing the walk. |