Monday 29th January 2007

Start point: Seathwaite (NY 235 122)

Seathwaite - Hanging Stone - Base Brown (505) - Blackmoor Pols - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Brandreth - Grey Knotts - Borrowdale Yews - Seathwaite

Distance: 5 miles     Total Ascent: 780 metres     Time Taken: 3 hours 30 minutes

Weather: Overcast, the tops in cloud. 8oC.

Route Map

The weather returned to being dull and damp after the rather more glamorous conditions of last Thursday. The tops were in cloud until the very end when the sun made a brief appearance. I can hardly believe it is 3 years since I last visited Base Brown, how time flies! I think conditions were similar last time I was there as well; I must visit it in the sunshine one day.

Here's one for the record, something you don't see very often - the road at Seathwaite deserted! For the uninitiated, there are cars as far as the eye can see in summer.

Base Brown from Seathwaite - all looks a bit gloomy today.

Sourmilk Gill.

Borrowdale, Seathwaite bottom right.

The top waterfall, Sourmilk Gill.

The shattered boulders on the north face of Base Brown.

Borrowdale from above the Hanging Stone (bottom).

Seathwaite Fell and Grains Gill. The cloud is low on the tops.

On the summit of Base Brown.

Heading across Blackmoor Pols.

Gillercomb through the mist. The rest of the walk up to Green Gable then back to Brandreth and Grey Knotts was completely under cover of the mist.

All was eerie and quiet on the summit of Grey Knotts.

Suddenly, on the descent from Grey Knotts, the sun appeared.

Base Brown across Gillercomb from Raven Crag.

Looking across Seatoller Fell and into Borrowdale.

Raven Crag from below.

Looking to the head of Borrowdale with Allen Crags and Great End behind Seathwaite Fell, from the Plumbago mines.

Thornythwaite Fell and Glaramara across Seathwaite.

Base Brown from the Borrowdale Yews.

The River Derwent.

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