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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10½mls (17km) |
| Ascent: | 3,407ft (1,038m) |
| Time: | 7¼hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route outline for walk c139:
Seatoller - Big Stanger Gill - Hanging Haystack Crag - Alisongrass Crag - Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot) - Tarn At Leaves - Rosthwaite Cam (Rosthwaite Fell) - Dovenest Top - Combe Door Top - Combe Head - Glaramara - Looking Steads (Glaramara) - Red Beck Top - High House Tarn Top - Allen Crags - Sprinking Tarn - Seathwaite Fell (South Top) - Seathwaite Fell - Grains Gill - The Allerdale Ramble - Stockley Bridge - Seathwaite (Borrowdale) - Thornythwaite Farm - Strands Bridge - The River Derwent - Seatoller
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 6 English Mountains |
 4 Wainwrights |
 11 English Nuttalls |
 1 English Dewey |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Allen Crags at 785m (2576ft). Allen Crags is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (51st highest in England, 90th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 42).
Allen Crags is also known as an English Nuttall (60th highest in England, 109th highest in England & Wales).
Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Glaramara at 783m (2569ft). Glaramara is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (53rd highest in England, 93rd highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 45).
Glaramara is also known as an English Nuttall (63rd highest in England, 113th highest in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of Looking Steads (Glaramara) at 775m (2545ft). Looking Steads (Glaramara) is also known as an English Nuttall (69th highest in England, 121st highest in England & Wales).
Along the way you will also bag:
- Combe Head at 735m (2412ft). Combe Head is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (78th England, 133rd Eng & Wal) and an English Nuttall (97th highest in England, 164th highest in England & Wales).
- Red Beck Top at 721m (2366ft). Red Beck Top is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (85th England, 146th Eng & Wal) and an English Nuttall (107th highest in England, 182nd highest in England & Wales).
- High House Tarn Top at 684m (2245ft). High House Tarn Top is known as an English Nuttall (148th highest in England, 249th highest in England & Wales).
- Combe Door Top at 676m (2219ft). Combe Door Top is known as an English Nuttall (155th highest in England, 265th highest in England & Wales).
- Dovenest Top at 633m (2078ft). Dovenest Top is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (157th England, 269th Eng & Wal) and an English Nuttall (211th highest in England, 362nd highest in England & Wales).
- Seathwaite Fell at 632m (2074ft). Seathwaite Fell is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (160th highest in England, 273rd highest in England & Wales), a Wainwright (No. 123) and an English Nuttall (214th highest in England, 367th highest in England & Wales).
- Seathwaite Fell (South Top) at 631m (2070ft). Seathwaite Fell (South Top) is known as an English Nuttall (215th highest in England, 370th highest in England & Wales).
- Rosthwaite Cam (Rosthwaite Fell) at 612m (2008ft). Rosthwaite Cam (Rosthwaite Fell) is known as an English Nuttall (248th highest in England, 432nd highest in England & Wales).
- Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot) at 551m (1808ft). Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot) is classified as a Wainwright (No. 148) and an English Dewey (68th highest in England, 157th highest in England & Wales) The summit of Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot) is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Allerdale Ramble, an 87km (54 miles) linear footpath connecting Seathwaite in Cumbria, with Grune Point in Cumbria, England. The Allerdale Ramble is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Allerdale Ramble.
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c139 Allen Crags, Glaramara and Seathwaite Fell from Seatoller
In no particular order . . .
Wainwrights unnamed 'perfect mountain tarn' between Glaramara and Allen Crags
Approaching Rosthwaite Cam (Rosthwaite Fell) and Tarn at Leaves from Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot)
Borrowdale featuring Rosthwaite and Stonethwaite from Hanging Haystack Crag
Early morning valley mist below Dale Head (Newlands) and High Spy, Maiden Moor & Cat Bells (Catbells) with the summit of Castle Crag (front right) lit by a ray of sunshine from Rosthwaite
Looking down Fleetwith Edge to a cloud inversion in the Buttermere valley from Fleetwith Pike
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