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Green Gable from Seathwaite
| Date of Walk: |
21/9/2001 |
| Mountains Climbed: |
Green Gable,
Brandreth, Grey
Knotts |
| Length of Walk: |
8.3 miles |
| Starting Point: |
Borrowdale Youth Hostel, Longthwaite |
Grid Ref: NY 254142 |
| Route: |
Borrowdale Youth Hostel, Seathwaite, Sour Mill Gill,
Green Gable, Brandreth, Grey Knotts, Honister Hause, Seatoller, Borrowdale
Youth Hostel |
| On the final day of our Cloudberry
Walking Holiday, we left Borrowdale Youth Hostel for Seathwaite on
a morning which had started out with low cloud, but which was clearing
by the time we set off. |
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bessyboot from Longthwaite |
From Seathwaite we climbed up the
path at the side of Sour Milk Gill. This took us between Base Brown
and Brandreth, our route back later in the day. The path is very
steep at the side of the gill, and requires some scrambling, especially
when you are not very tall! We had a break where the path splits,
with the left fork taking you to Base Brown's summit and the right
fork taking you to Green Gable.
I would have liked to climb Base Brown but some
of the others were travelling home that evening and did not want
to extend the walk, so we turned right as planned towards Green
Gable and slogged our way up the last climb to reach the summit. |
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david at the summit of green gable |
| Nigel had promised that we could use
the lunch break at Green Gable's summit for an extension to Great
Gable, but the mist started coming down, and he was unhappy about
splitting the group up, which we accepted, so we had lunch with the
others and before long we were in cloud with very poor visibility.
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nigel and some of the others at the summit |
| After lunch we walked to Brandreth.
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david and the rest of our party at the summit of brandreth |
| The visibility had improved a little,
but the cloud soon came back down. |
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view from brandreth towards the gables |
At the relatively rounded summit
plateau of Brandreth as the cloud came down, Nigel set us a little
task which was to guess (without taking bearings) which direction
to start walking in towards Grey Knotts after we had stopped for
a break. We were all surprised at how disorientating the mist was
and another valuable lesson was learnt as none of us were confident
of which direction we had come from, let alone which way we were
going.
Of course, Nigel knew where we were and got us
safely to Grey Knotts, by which time the mist had lifted again. |
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david on the summit of grey knotts |
| From Grey Knotts we followed the wall,
then diverted our course to take a look at the Plumbago Mines before
dropping down to Honister Hause and Seatoller, from where we followed
the footpath back to the Youth Hostel. |
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Grey Knotts from the wall by the plumbago mines, with
Sour Milk Gill and Base Brown on the left |
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