Crinkle Crags and Pike o' Blisco (Fri 16 Sep 2005)

Walk Information

location map

Walk route: Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale - Stool End Farm, Great Langdale - Oxendale - Hell Gill - Buscoe Sike - Three Tarns - Crinkle Crags (Long Top) - Great Knott - Red Tarn (Langdale) - Pike O' Blisco - Wall End, Great Langdale - Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale

Distance: 7.75 miles

Ascent: 3,300ft

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Time: 7 hours 15 minutes

With: Members of the OFC

Conditions: Brilliant

Photos

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Looking up Oxendale to Great Knott and Crinkle CragsStool End FarmWhorneyside Force (Waterfall)Hell GillHeading up by the side of Hell Gill with Pike o' Blisco behindPike o' Blisco from BuscoeThe Langdale Pikes seen over The BandThe Langdale Pikes, The Band, Lingmoor Fell, Pike o' BliscoThe ScafellsLooking over the Langdale Pikes to the south end of the Helvellyn ridge, Saint Sunday Crag and Fairfield from Crinkle CragsLooking down into Great Langdale from Crinkle CragsGreat Langdale and Pike o' Blisco with Windermere in the distance from Crinkle CragsPike o' Blisco with Windermere beyond from Crinkle CragsLooking back north to Bowfell with Skiddaw on the skyline (right)The Scafells, Great End, Esk Pike, Bowfell, Skiddaw, Blencathra and the Helvellyn ridge behind High Raise and the Langdale Pikes from Crinkle CragsLooking south down the Duddon Valley to Morecambe Bay from Long Top (the highest Crinkle)360 Panorama from Long Top (Crinkle Crags) summitLittle Stand from the most southerly CrinkleCrinkle Crags from Great KnottCold Pike with the Coniston Fells behind from Great KnottBowfell from Pike o' Blisco's summit cairnJohn Patterson celebrates his last Wainwright with a beaker (or two) of Pink Champagne on Pike o' BliscoSummit Party, Pike o' BliscoCrinkle Crags and Bowfell from Pike o' Blisco's summitNorthwest to southeast panorama from Pike o' Blisco's summitThe Langdale Pikes from above Wall End Farm

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