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Black Combe

Walked on 11/07/2007

Start point: Beckside (SD 153 847)

Beckside – Whicham Mill – Whitecombe Head – Black Combe (OF) – South Top of Black Combe – Eller Peatpot – Beckside

Distance: 5.5 miles     Total Ascent: 560 metres     Time Taken: 2 hours

Weather: Overcast. 15oC.

More cloud but no rain at least for our walk this morning up to Black Combe, that great hulk of fell at the south-western tip of the Lake District. It is a relatively easy ascent following Whitecombe Beck all the way to Whitecombe Head, the sting in the tail being the very steep descent to get back to the valley.

Black Combe

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Whicham Mill.

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Heading along Whitecombe Valley.

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Whitecombe Beck.

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Casper seems to like it in there!

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Whitecombe Valley.

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Looking across to Black Combe from the climb across the lower slopes of White Combe.

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The same view from higher up, the clouds are down on the summit of Black Combe up to the right.

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Looking along the valley to Barrow-in-Furness and Walney Island across the Duddon Estuary beyond Millom.

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Heading for Black Combe.

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Angus and Casper on the misty summit of Black Combe.

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A close-up of Barrow and Walney Island with Haverigg in the foreground.

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White Combe from Black Combe. The path used in ascent can be seen zig-zagging to the left.

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Blackcombe Screes from Eller Peatpot.

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Angus.

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White Hall Knott from the descent.

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Blackcombe Beck.

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