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Sty Head Round

Walked on 23/04/2013

Start point: Seathwaite (NY 235 122)

Seathwaite – Hanging Stone – Base Brown – Blackmoor Pols – Green Gable – Windy Gap – Styhead Tarn – Sty Head – Sprinkling Tarn – Great Slack on Seathwaite Fell – Seathwaite Fell – Taylorgill Force – Seathwaite

Distance: 6.2 miles     Total Ascent: 925 metres     Time Taken: 4 hours     Start Time: 07:00

Weather: Changeable, windy. 11oC.

It’s a while since I have done these fells and it was nice to get back there for a visit. The weather was constantly changing and the summits were very windy with the clouds constantly blowing in and off. There was quite a number of dead sheep around today, a grizzly consequence of the heavy snowfall not so long ago.

01 Sty Head

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Base Brown from Seathwaite.

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High above Seathwaite Farm.

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Seathwaite Fell and Base Brown.

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Seathwaite Fell.

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Sourmilk Gill.

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Borrowdale and fallen branch.

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Sunburst over Borrowdale.

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Early morning light at the top of Sour Milk Gill.

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Base Brown.

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Borrowdale from the northern slopes of Base Brown.

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The Hanging Stone.

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Great and Green Gable from Base Brown.

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Heading for Green Gable across Blackmoor Pols - it looks like Dougal has already been!

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Looking back to Base Brown.

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Ennerdale from Green Gable.

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Great from Green.

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Great End and Skew Gill from the descent.

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Dougal in traditional pose on the stretcher box.

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Lingmell and Piers Gill.

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Windswept Dougal on Great Slack.

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The Wainwright summit of Seathwaite Fell from Great Slack, the highest point.

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It was very windy along here but there is blue sky over Keswick way.

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The steep descent.

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Taylorgill Force.

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