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

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