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Gillercomb Round

Walked on 29/01/2007

Start point: Seathwaite (NY 235 122)

eathwaite – Hanging Stone – Base Brown (505) – Blackmoor Pols – Green Gable – Gillercomb Head – Brandreth – Grey Knotts – Borrowdale Yews – Seathwaite

Distance: 5 miles     Total Ascent: 780 metres     Time Taken: 3 hours 30 minutes

Weather: Overcast, the tops in cloud. 8°C

The weather returned to being dull and damp after the rather more glamorous conditions of last Thursday. The tops were in cloud until the very end when the sun made a brief appearance. I can hardly believe it is 3 years since I last visited Base Brown, how time flies! I think conditions were similar last time I was there as well; I must visit it in the sunshine one day.

Gillercomb Round

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Here's one for the record, something you don't see very often - the road at Seathwaite deserted! For the uninitiated, there are cars as far as the eye can see in summer.

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Base Brown from Seathwaite - all looks a bit gloomy today.

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Sourmilk Gill.

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Borrowdale, Seathwaite bottom right.

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The top waterfall, Sourmilk Gill.

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The shattered boulders on the north face of Base Brown.

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Borrowdale from above the Hanging Stone (bottom).

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Seathwaite Fell and Grains Gill. The cloud is low on the tops.

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On the summit of Base Brown.

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Heading across Blackmoor Pols.

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Gillercomb through the mist. The rest of the walk up to Green Gable then back to Brandreth and Grey Knotts was completely under cover of the mist.

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All was eerie and quiet on the summit of Grey Knotts.

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Suddenly, on the descent from Grey Knotts, the sun appeared.

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Base Brown across Gillercomb from Raven Crag.

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Looking across Seatoller Fell and into Borrowdale

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Raven Crag from below

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Looking to the head of Borrowdale with Allen Crags and Great End behind Seathwaite Fell, from the Plumbago mines.

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Thornythwaite Fell and Glaramara across Seathwaite.

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Base Brown from the Borrowdale Yews.

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The River Derwent.

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