Category: Wasdale
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Going up Scafell Pike again … but this time up to the Great End, Lake District – April
Another excellent weather day. Since we were in Wasdale, it would have seemed a bit odd not to go up Scafell Pike again (last time was in 2006). So we did, but this time not turning back from the top of Scafell Pike, but continuing over to the other side on to Broad Crag, skirting…
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Going through Little Hell Gate on Great Gable, Lake District – April
We thought we may have been up Great Gable on a previous occasion (I checked later, and it turned out that we had gone up it in 2009). In any case, we knew that we had not gone up ‘direct’ route up the south-west ridge, through the charmingly named Little Hell Gate. I forgot to…
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Finding a way up to Sca Fell, Lake District – April
We had been up to Scafell Pike before (in 2006): it is the highest mountain in England at 978m, and there is a relatively easy way up to the top. On the last occasion, it was in December, and there was a bit of snow at the top. I had felt a bit nervous about…