Christine, Nick, Jago and me met at the CC hut at Grange in Borrowdale on Friday night for this meet. Saturdays forecast was for snow showers so we decided to climb Great Gable from Seathwaite. We approached Styhead by the right hand bank of Styhead Gill which involves some easy scrambling and good waterfall views.
By the time we reached the rescue box at Styhead the hailstones were heavy enough to have lunch.
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| Lunchtime at Styhead |
From Styhead a good well made path leads up the west ridge of Great Gable to the summit where we admired the new FRCC memorial to their war dead.
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| Summit |
From the summit we descended to Windy Gap where below the cloud level we had great views of Ennerdale.
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| Descent to Windy Gap |
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| View from Windy Gap. |
A short ascent then took us to Green Gable and then on to Base Brown. The descent from Base Brown was tricky on wet snow lying on steep, wet, grassy slopes but eventually we reached Sour Milk Gill and the track down to Seathwaite.
On returning to Grange we discovered Dennis had arrived and had constructed a new picnic bench in the hut grounds.
Although the weather was better on Sunday the aches and pains from Saturday precluded another day out on the hills so after a short walk down the valley we headed home.
