Date : 21st July 2012
Weather : Overcast and warm around 20
°C
Distance : 10 miles round trip
Difficulty : Medium – Hard – the pull up to Bowfell from 3 Tarns is quite steep
Which
part of Lakeland is this walk situated
Terrain
Overview
Overview
A fantastic walk
up iconic mountains in the Langdale region, fine views to be had and
Wainwrights` “Finest ridge mile in
Lakeland”
The walk starts from the NT Car
park at Old Dungeon Ghyll. Here you can see the Crinkles and also
the Band leading down from Bowfell
The Langdale Pikes from the path
along to Stool End Farm
A closer view of the Crinkles
Crossing Oxendale
Beck
Approaching Stool End Farm
Looking at Rosset Pike and Black
Crags at the head of the valley
Pike o Stickle
Through the farm and the start of
the path that runs along Oxendale Beck
The path up to the start of the
Crinkle Crags ridge
Close up of the Beck
Whorneyside Force
And from higher up
Looking back to the Langdale Pikes
from the climb
Pike o Blisco
from the path
Just before the start of the ridge
walk across the crinkles and a view back down the Langdale valley
Having negotiated the first crinkle the path leading to the second (and highest crinkle
– Long Top)
is blocked by what Wainwright
called “the most difficult obstacle met on any of the regular walkers
paths in Lakeland … The Bad Step,
requires a little bit of scrambling or it can be bypassed completely
by a path on the left
A view across Eskdale towards
Scafell and Scafell Pike
Onwards to the third crinkle
A view of Bowfell
from the top of the crinkle
Scafell Pike summit as busy as ever
The path from Three Tarns up to Bowfell – quite steep
Down at Three Tarns and a view of
the Scafells
The very steep path up Bowfell
A look back from the climb
Approaching the summit of Bowfell
The “boulder heighway”
up to the summit
Me on the summit of Bowfell
Mickledore separating
the two Scafells
On the way back down via the Band
and I pass the natural feature that Wainwright called “The Great Slab”
The gentle path back down to the
valley via The Band
Down on the valley floor now in
fading light and a last look at Crinkle Crags
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