Friday 25th May 2007

 

Start Point : Braithwaite (NY 232 236)

                   

Distance : 6.9  miles         Height Ascended : 870 metres

 

Route Map

 

Looking down on the village of Braithwaite the start of today's walk

 

A little higher up now on the Barrow ridge

 

Causey Pike, Scar Crags, Sail and Crag Hill to the left,  Outerside lower centre,

Hobcarton Crag and Grisedale Pike silhouetted to the right from the summit of Barrow

 

Looking up Stonycroft Gill from Barrow Door

 

The view down Coledale Beck from the summit of Outerside towards the Skiddaw massif

 

Hetty on the summit of Outerside – Sail and Crag Hill providing the background

 

Coledale Hause from Outerside - Eel Crag to the left and Sand Hill to the right

 

Causey Pike above a thick carpet of cotton grass from High Moss

 

Hetty waits in the heather

 

Looking along the Scar Crags ridge to Causey Pike

 

360° panorama from the summit of Scar Crags – click on image for a larger version

 

The High Stile ridge from Scar Crags, the Knott Rigg ridge pointing the way…………..

 

……….....and the view the other way towards Skiddaw and Blencathra

 

Hetty enjoys the views from Scar Crags

 

Scar Crags

 

Looking back along the Scar Crags / Causey Pike Ridge

 

A glorious view from Causey Pike

 

Looking up Rigg Beck from Sleet Hause - Ard Crags to the left and Scar Crags to the right

 

Barrow catches the sunlight

 

Causey Pike and the ridge route taken on the steep descent

 

Lord's Seat and Barf from the path leading back to Brathwaite