Was down the Lakes and decided to go for a run out to Great Gable to remind myself of the BG route off and get some up & down practice in. Setting off from Gatesgarth in Buttermere in shorts & t-shirt sun shining I climbed up the Fleetwith mines calling in at Warnscale head bothy, perched on the hill looking out to Buttermere. I’ll be back for a night here sometime when its not holiday season.
Running over to Gable the weather turned and I spent the next hour in cloud, rain & Gore-Tex. I took note of the key to hitting the right way off, as its easy missed on this summit and dropped back to the track I’d come up.
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Not always blue skies,
on Great Gable's summit |
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| Honister Mines |
Running from memory again (who needs a map) I started descending off Green Gable but something didn’t feel right so this time I stopped and sure enough a quick break in the cloud confirmed I’d drifted off the spur to Base Brown. A quick correction and I was away over Brandreth & Grey Knotts before dropping steeply to join the summer tourists at Honister mines. No coffee shop stops for me.
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| Newlands valley from Dale Head |
Across the road and up I went to climb Dale Head where the weather had improved, then across to Hindscarth & Robinson before ploughing a direct line back through the ferns to the valley floor.
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