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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10½mls (17km) |
| Ascent: | 4,693ft (1,430m) |
| Time: | 8½hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route outline for walk c174:
Seatoller (Borrowdale) - Strands Bridge - Borrowdale - The Combe - Thornythwaite Fell - Comb Head - Glaramara - Looking Steads (Glaramara) - Red Beck - Red Beck Top - Allen Gill - High House Tarn - High House Tarn Top - Allen Crags - Esk Hause - Ruddy Gill - Sprinkling Tarn - Sty Head - Great Gable - Westmorland Cairn - Windy Gap - Green Gable - Gillercomb Head - Brandreth - Grey Knotts - Honister Hause - Honister Pass - Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk - Seatoller (Borrowdale).
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 6 English Mountains |
 6 Wainwrights |
 9 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Great Gable at 899m (2951ft). Great Gable is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (9th highest in England, 25th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 7).
Great Gable is also known as an English Nuttall (11th highest in England, 28th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (4th highest in England, 238th highest in the UK).
Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Green Gable at 801m (2629ft). Green Gable is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (43rd highest in England, 78th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 34).
Green Gable is also known as an English Nuttall (50th highest in England, 93rd highest in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of 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).
Along the way you will also bag:
- Glaramara at 783m (2569ft). Glaramara is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (53rd highest in England, 93rd highest in England & Wales), a Wainwright (No. 45) and an English Nuttall (63rd highest in England, 113th highest in England & Wales).
- Looking Steads (Glaramara) at 775m (2545ft). Looking Steads (Glaramara) is known as an English Nuttall (69th highest in England, 121st 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).
- Brandreth at 715m (2346ft). Brandreth is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (89th highest in England, 152nd highest in England & Wales), a Wainwright (No. 81) and an English Nuttall (112th highest in England, 191st highest in England & Wales).
- Grey Knotts at 697m (2287ft). Grey Knotts is classified as a Wainwright (No. 92) and an English Nuttall (138th highest in England, 227th 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).
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, a 306km (190 miles) linear footpath connecting St Bees in Cumbria, England with Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, England. Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk is waymarked by the occasional sign. For more walks that include a section of this trail see Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk.
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c174 Glaramara and Great Gable from Seatoller (Borrowdale)
In no particular order . . .
Kirk Fell and the shoulder of Great Gable (right) with the lower slopes of Great End (left) and Red Pike (Wasdale) in the distance from Sty Head
The Langdale Pikes (left), Rossett Pike (foreground left) and Esk Pike (right) from Esk Hause
Brandreth summit cairn with Gillercomb Head leading up to Green Gable with Great Gable looking majestic in the background
Illgill Head (left) Wasdale, Wast Water and Yewbarrow from Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
*Pillar (left), High Stile (centre), Ennerdale, Hay Stacks, Crummock Water, Buttermere and Grasmoor (right) from Green Gable
Wasdale featuring Lingmell (left), Illgill Head and Whin Rigg (left of centre in the distance), Wast Water (centre) and Yewbarrow (right) from Westmorland Cairn near the summit of Great Gable
Wast Water with Illgill Head (left) and Yewbarrow (right) from Great Gable summit
Illgill Head and Whin Rigg (left) Wast Water and Yewbarrow and Middle Fell (right) from Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Snow on Scafell Pike (left), Sca Fell (right top) and Lingmell (right centre) from Westmorland Cairn on Great Gable
Kirk Fell with Pillar and Little Scoat Fell beyond from Great Gable summit
Northern Souls Walking Club at the Remembrance Day service on top of Great Gable
Kirk Fell (foreground), Pillar, Ennerdale, Red Pike (Buttermere), High Stile, High Crag and Crummock Water (far right) from Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Snow on Yewbarrow (North Top) left, Red Pike (centre right) and the shoulder or Kirk Fell (right) tower above Wasdale from near Sty Head
Looking NW from Grey Knotts above Honister Slate Mine to Fleetwith Pike (left) and Robinson, Littledale Edge, Hindscarth and Dale Head (Newlands) on the other side of the valley
Beck Head and Beckhead Tarn with Kirk Fell beyond from below Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
Green Gable (left) and Great Gable (centre left) from the summit of Brandreth
Wast Water, Wasdale and Yewbarrow with Middle Fell (left) Seatallan (background centre), Red Pike (Wasdale) (right) and the shoulder of Kirk Fell (centre foreground) from Westmorland Cairn on Great Gable
Looking down towards Buttermere from Honister Hause with Bell Crags (left) and Robinson (centre right), Hindscarth (right) & the shoulder of Dale Head (Newlands) far right)
Kirk Fell with Red Pike (Wasdale), Little Scoat Fell and Pillar behind from Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable
The High Stile ridge (left), Buttermere and the Grasmoor massif (right) from Brandreth
Bow Fell (Bowfell) (North Top) and Esk Pike from the shelter on Esk Hause
Ennerdale with Hay Stacks (Haystacks) and the High Stile ridge (right) and Looking Stead and Pillar (left) from Brandreth
Robinson towering above Honister Pass from the lower slopes of Grey Knotts
Wasdale Head and Wast Water from Gavel Neese on the lower slopes of Great Gable
Westmorland Cairn, Great Gable panorama featuring Kirk Fell (foreground centre), Wast Water, Wasdale and Yewbarrow with Middle Fell and Seatallan beyond (left), Red Pike (Wasdale), Little Scoat Fell and Pillar behind Kirk Fell (centre) and Ennerdale with Red Pike (Buttermere), High Stile, High Crag and Crummock Water (right)
A dusting of snow on the shoulder of Lingmell (left), Middle Fell (centre left in the distance) and Yewbarrow above Wasdale from Sty Head
Styhead Tarn, Great Gable and Green Gable from the path below Sprinkling Tarn
Wainwrights unnamed 'perfect mountain tarn' between Glaramara and Allen Crags
A grand view overlooking the valley of upper Wasdale from Esk Hause with Pillar, Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Green Gable taking centre stage
Looking down Styhead Gill from Sty Head to a sunlit Borrowdale with Bleaberry Fell the high point in the distance
Scafell Pike (far left), Ill Crag and the shoulder of Great End (far right) from Esk Hause
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