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Grisedale Pike

Walked on 16/06/2008

Start point: Revelin Moss Car Park (NY 249 242)

Comb Bridge – Grisedale Pike – Hobcarton End (537) – Comb Bridge

Distance: 1.2 miles     Total Ascent: 485 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour 10 minutes

Weather: Sunny, warming nicely. 14ºC.

Second walk of the day was up to Grisedale Pike but the real reason for the walk was to pick up a straggling Birkett, Hobcarton End. It was a steep ascent from the car park in Whinlatter Forest but at least it was starting from 300m which made it a bit easier to bear. The cloud seemed to gather on this walk and the clear skies of earlier were gone.

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Starting the steep climb from Hospital Plantation up the north eastern ridge of Grisedale Pike.

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Come on, says Casper - but it is steep!

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Relentlessly onwards and upwards.

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Finally, at the summit of Grisedale Pike.

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Grasmoor and Hopegill Head from Grisedale Pike.

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Grasmoor beyond Hobcarton Head.

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Crag Hill with Eel Crag to the right.

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Bowfell and Esk Pike, the Scafells covered with cloud to the right.

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The route of descent to Hobcarton End.

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Casper wears his tongue at a jaunty angle.

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Hopegill Head - that descent to Ladyside Pike looks steep from here and brought back memories of when I did it in the snow earlier this year. That was in January - it feels like only yesterday!

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The first cairn on Hobcarton End, the hump to the right is the Birkett summit. Criffel is beneath the cloud in Scotland across then Solway Firth.

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Hobcarton End.

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Criffel and the bog cotton. There are two more walks to come from today yet;

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