Saturday 21 April 2018

Great Gable (Cumbria) and one or two other tops




Helvellyn ridge looking into the sun

 Early morning mist over Buttermere

Clouds around Steeple (819m) above Ennerdale

High Stile (807m) above Buttermere
Green Gable and Great Gable from Brandreth

Looking down Ennerdale from Brandreth 

Windy Gap and Great Gable 

Zooming in on Gable Crag as the mist clears

Sty Head tarn with Springling tarn above
and the Langdales, top left

Rock climbers memorial plaque on
Great Gable summit (899m 2949ft)

The Scafells (977m 3205ft) from Great Gable

 A lone walker on the summit with Waswater behind

Zooming in on Wasdale Head with the hotel bottom right 

 Ennerdale with the remote Black Sail hut YHA centre right

Pillar (892m) in mist, with Pillar rock below the summit,
favourite of rock climbers 

Buttermere and Crummock water now clear of mist

Scafell between Great Gable and Kirk fell 

Buttermere and Crummock water from Fleetwith Pike summit....

... and Honister pass road below

Zooming in on the road 1500ft below

The old Honister slate quarry 

Helvellyn ridge again now basked in sun

The new Honister quarry and visitor attraction reopened 1997

Friday 13 April 2018

Grasmere to Dungeon Ghyll Langdale - A walk to the Langdales' summits



Leaving Grasmere along Easedale

Sour Milk Ghyll at at the head of Easedale

Looking back down the Ghyll into Easedale

Easedale tarn



Summit of Sergeant Man (736m)

Stickle Tarn above Langdale from Sergeant Man

Summit cairn on High Raise (762m)-reputed to be the most central fell in Lakeland

Looking down on the New Dungeon Ghyll hotel from summit of Harrison Stickle (736m)

Pavey Ark(700m) above Stickle tarn from Harrison Stickle

Pike 'o' Stickle (709m) from Harrison Stickle

 Descending into Langdale from Loft Crag

The New Dungeon Ghyll hotel in Langdale

Dungeon Ghyll force

The New Dungeon Ghyll hotel

Saturday 7 April 2018

Skipton to Grassington via Barden Moor

Skipton High Street

The entrance to the castle and Holy Trinity church

They've got funny looking sheep in Yorkshire!

Embsay reservoir and sailing club

Embsay Crag and reservoir

Trig point on Crookrise Crag 415m

Waterfall Gill

Rylstone Cross (origin unknown replaced 1995)

The war memorial obelisk on Cracoe Hill 500m

Descending into Wharfedale

The river Wharfe down stream from Grassington

No chance of crossing these stepping stones today.... 

.....but a very nice bridge nearby at Linton Falls


Weir with something running off water power

A fancy bus shelter in Grassington

Market square Grassington