Thursday, 6 September 2018

Honister to Buttermere via Haystacks and the Buttermere fells. 8.5miles 3,400ft ascent.



Setting off from Honister pass slate quarry

Dubs quarry (disused)

Blackbeck tarn

Buttermere Valley from the climb up Haystacks

Innonimate Tarn where Wainwright asked his wife, Betty, to scatter his ashes.

Buttermere and Crummock water from Haystacks summmit

Pillar again showing the High Level route and the
Shamrock traverse leading to Pillar Rock

Pillar from Haystacks summit

Buttermere and Robinson fell 

Looking back at Haystacks from Seat

Gatesgarth farm in the Buttermere valley

Fleetwith Pike

High Stile from the summit of High Crag

Ennerdale Water with the coast behind

The aptly named Red Pike from High Stile

The lone walker again on Red Pike summit

Starting the descent past Bleaberry tarn to Buttermere 

The very eroded path through the red rock

 Buttermere and Fleetwith Pike from the descent

Buttermere village

Buttermere shore line

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