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One Small Step

Walked on 15/10/2008

Start point: The Old Dungeon Ghyll car park (NY 286 062)

Old Dungeon Ghyll – Oxendale – Red Tarn – Crinkle Crags – Three Tarns – Bowfell – Climbers Traverse – The Band – Old Dungeon Ghyll

Distance: 7.8 miles     Total Ascent: 1000 metres     Time Taken: 6 hours

Weather: Showers, cold wind. 11ºC.

‘One Small Step’ was the second walk I have organised for StridingEdge followers, the name being obvious when you look at the route. The weather was certainly changeable and it improved after we had crossed the Crinkle Crags ridge. Thanks to all who attended today, it was a brilliant day out with great company.

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Early morning sun and low level cloud over Coniston Water on the way to Great Langdale.

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Coniston Water.

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On to the walk - the Langdale Pikes from the path to Oxendale.

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They're all off - wait for me!

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Valley mist and the Langdales.

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Great Langdale over Stool End.

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Oxendale beck.

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Oxendale with Crinkle Crags under cloud cover.

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Looking back from the climb alongside Browney Gill.

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Autumnal Oxendale.

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The climb towards Red Tarn.

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Cascades on Browney Gill.

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Who are all those people?

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Crossing Browney Gill and a change of direction to head up towards Crinkle Crags.

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Looking back to Red Tarn. From hereon in, the weather was against us along the Crinkle Crags ridge. The cloud was down, the wind was up and the rain was in!

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'One Small Step' - everyone successfully negotiated the Bad Step, me and Casper were last up here looking back down from the top. The rest of the ridge walk continued in the clag including our lunch stop above Three Tarns until...

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...an improvement in the weather and Three Tarns and Bowfell were revealed.

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The StridingEdge 'One Small Step' walkers: Mike, David, Andy, Martin, Scott, Claire, Gary, Karl with Eleanor kneeling (Casper on the right in case you didn't know!).

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The climb from Three Tarns to Bowfell.

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Lingcove Beck and Eskdale from the summit of Bowfell.

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Esk Pike makes a brief appearance from Bowfell.

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Something has interested Casper, he's licking his lips!

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The view perhaps?

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Three Tarns below and Crinkle Crags.

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A closer view and perhaps the best view of Crinkle Crags today.

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The Great Slab of Flat Crags, Windermere in view beyond Lingmoor Fell.

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Langstrath from the descent to the Climbers Traverse.

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Descending the river of boulders to the south of Cambridge Crag.

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"Cambridge Crag is identifiable, beyond all doubt, by the waterspout gushing from the base of the cliff - and nothing better ever came out of a barrel or a bottle." - A. Wainwright, Bowfell 6.

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Following the Climbers Traverse.

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The Climbers Traverse.

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The Band from the Climbers Traverse.

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The Langdale Pikes from The Band.

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Pike o' Blisco from The Band. The path used in ascent can faintly be seen running diagonally upwards from left to right towards Browney Gill.

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