| Bowfell - Route One |
| Start - ODG Hotel NY 285 060 | Distance - 3.3 miles | Ascent - 2,670 feet | Time - 2 hours : 40 minutes |
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| The National Trust car park beside the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel |
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| Crinkle Crags above Oxendale from the approach road to Stool End Farm at the foot of The Band |
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| Looking right from the Stool End road to Pike o' Stickle and Gimmer Crag |
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| Stool End Farm, the path passes to the left of the farmhouse |
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| The popular route to Bowfell via The Band leaves the track at the top of a short rise. The track continues on into Oxendale |
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| Martcrag Moor and Pike o' Stickle across Mickleden |
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| Crinkle Crags above the head of Oxendale |
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| Looking back to Great Langdale |
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| Looking up to Shelter Crags from the path alongside Oxendale Beck |
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| Crinkle Gill |
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| Whorneyside Force and the summit of Bowfell come into view |
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| A short distance past Crinkle Gill there is a substantial footbridge crossing Buscoe Sike |
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| Looking back from the footbridge over Buscoe Sike to Great Langdale |
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The path passes above the impressive cascade of Whorneyside Force |
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| Above Whorneyside Force the path re-crosses Buscoe Sike and climbs beside the deep cleft of Hell Gill |
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| Bowfell from Hell Gill |
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| Bowfell above the upper reaches of Buscoe Sike. The route continues on towards the col of Three Tarns |
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| Pike o' Blisco from the top of Hell Gill |
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| The path is indistinct in parts but improves as it nears the col |
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| The summits of Pike o' Stickle and Harrison Stickle appear over The Band |
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| Approaching the col where this route joins the path from The Band |
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| Looking back to the Langdale Pikes from The Band path |
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| Looking back from the col along the route |
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| Scafell and Scafell Pike from Three Tarns |
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| From Three Tarns a very rough and stony path leads up the southern flank of Bowfell |
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| Scafell from the path above Three Tarns |
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| Looking up the higher part of the path above Three Tarns |
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| From the same point looking down to Three Tarns |
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| The view to Eskdale from the path |
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| Slight Side and Scafell |
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| The path emerges onto the summit ridge near the top of Flat Crags where the view opens out to the north |
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| Passing the Great Slab of Flat Crags |
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| The summit of Bowfell from the Great Slab |
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| Scafell and Scafell Pike from the ridge path below the summit |
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| Approaching the summit of Bowfell |
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| Esk Pike from the summit of Bowfell |
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| The North Western fells from the summit of Bowfell |
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| Looking north to Skiddaw |
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| Langstrath with Blencathra on the horizon |
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| The Great Slab and the Langdale Pikes |
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| Pike o' Blisco and Wetherlam |
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| Hard Knott and Harter Fell |
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| Slight Side and Cam Spout Crag above Great Moss |
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| Scafell and Scafell Pike from the summit of Bowfell |
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