Walk Information

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Walk route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - perched boulder - Blackbeck Tarn - Dubs Quarry - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth

Distance: 5.50 miles

Ascent: 1,700ft

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Time: 3 hours 0 minutes

With: on own

Conditions: Overcast, windy at times. The odd sunny moment but the summits of Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Pillar remained in cloud

Photos

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High Crag and High Stile with their tops in cloud from GatesgarthPeggy's Bridge. The Scarth Gap path goes round the right hand side and then back left above the woodlandHaystacks from Peggy's Bridge over Warnscale BeckWarnscale Bottom with Fleetwith Pike on the leftLooking back down the Scarth Gap pathHaystacks summitHaystacks summit tarn, Seat and Gamlin End (High Crag)Innominate Tarn with Grey Knotts and Brandreth beyond from HaystacksButtermere and Crummock Water from HaystacksInnominate Tarn looking back to Haystacks - Happy Birthday AWInnominate TarnInnominate TarnPerched boulder (See Wainwright Haystacks 10)Blackbeck TarnButtermere with Crummock Water beyondThe stepping stones across Warnscale Beck were underwater making the crossing more interestingHaystacks from the Dubs Quarry trackWarnscale Bottom and Buttermere from the Dubs Quarry trackThe Dubs Quarry track down into the valleyWarnscale Bottom

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