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.
Base Brown from Seathwaite.
High above Seathwaite Farm.
Seathwaite Fell and Base Brown.
Seathwaite Fell.
Sourmilk Gill.
Borrowdale and fallen branch.
Sunburst over Borrowdale.
Early morning light at the top of Sour Milk Gill.
Base Brown.
Borrowdale from the northern slopes of Base Brown.
The Hanging Stone.
Great and Green Gable from Base Brown.
Heading for Green Gable across Blackmoor Pols - it looks like Dougal has already been!
Looking back to Base Brown.
Ennerdale from Green Gable.
Great from Green.
Great End and Skew Gill from the descent.
Dougal in traditional pose on the stretcher box.
Lingmell and Piers Gill.
Windswept Dougal on Great Slack.
The Wainwright summit of Seathwaite Fell from Great Slack, the highest point.
It was very windy along here but there is blue sky over Keswick way.
The steep descent.
Taylorgill Force.