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The hamlet of Stonethwaite at the start of the walk |
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To the left of the telephone kiosk is a walled lane that is signposted 'Greenup and Grasmere', which crosses over Stonethwaite Bridge |
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The wooded slopes of Great Crag from the lane |
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Looking across to Greenup Gill and Eagle Crag from the lane |
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Stonethwaite Beck from the bridge |
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Looking back to Stonethwaite from the end of the lane |
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The lane joins the bridleway which runs between Borrowdale and Grasmere via Greenup Edge |
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Looking back to Stonethwaite from the bridleway |
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The bridleway is only followed for a few hundred yards before leaving it for a path which turns off to the left beside a sheepfold |
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The path rises across an open pasture towards the woods above it |
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Looking over to Big Stanger Gill on Rosthwaite Fell |
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A stile at the top end of the pasture gives access to the wood |
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Looking back to Stonethwaite from the stile |
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From the stile a clear path leads through the wood towards Willygrass Gill |
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After a few hundred yards another stile is crossed and the path begins to climb alongside Willygrass Gill |
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Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag through the trees in Willygrass Gill |
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The path soon turns away from Willygrass Gill and climbs steeply through the wood towards Lingy End |
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Grey Knotts and the top of Honister Crag appear through a gap in the trees |
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Looking back along the steep path |
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Looking across to Ullscarf |
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Grey Knotts, Honister Crag and Dale Head from near the top of Lingy End |
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Looking back to Greenup Gill, Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag as the path emerges from the wood |
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Rosthwaite Fell across the Stonethwaite Valley |
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Grey Knotts, Honister Crag and Dale Head across Borrowdale |
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Approaching the top of Lingy End |
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Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag from the ruined hut on Lingy End |
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The path continues on below the rocky outcrops of Knotts |
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Looking over to High Crag from the path below Knotts |
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The path meets and skirts around a re-entrant of Willygrass Gill |
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High Crag from the path rising out of the re-entrant gill |
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Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag from the head of the re-entrant gill |
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Looking back across the re-entrant gill towards Great Gable |
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Above the re-entrant gill the path crosses a stile in a substantial wall to emerge onto the upper slopes of the fell |
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High Crag from the stile |
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Looking back to Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag from the stile |
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From the stile the path continues on to rejoin Willygrass Gill |
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Looking over Knotts towards Dale Head and High Spy |
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Looking back towards Great Gable, with Brandreth and Grey Knotts above the hanging valley of Gillercombe |
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Looking back towards Langstrath with Crinkle Crags and Bowfell on the horizon |
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Honister Crag and Dale Head |
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The path climbs alongside Willygrass Gill towards Dock Tarn |
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Dock Tarn |
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The main path alongside the western shore of Dock Tarn leads to Watendlath. At the northern end of the tarn a path, with an indistinct start, turns off to the left and heads north-westwards towards the summit of Great Crag |
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Dock Tarn from the north |
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Approaching the summit ridge of Great Crag |
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Borrowdale from the path to the summit of Great Crag |
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The summit of Great Crag |
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Watendlath from the summit of Great Crag |
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Great Dodd, Watson's Dodd and Stybarrow Dodd on the left, Raise and White Side in the centre with Helvellyn on the right |
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Dock Tarn and Ullscarf |
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Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag backed by High Raise |
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Rosthwaite Fell and Glaramara in the centre with Crinkle Crags and Bowfell to the left and Scafell Pike and Lingmell on the right |
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The upper Borrowdale valley from the summit of Great Crag |
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Dale Head and High Spy |
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In the centre, the summit of Grisedale Pike appears over Maiden Moor |
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Skiddaw over the north top of Great Crag |
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The main summit of Great Crag from the north top |
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Watendlath, backed by Bleaberry Fell and High Seat from the north top of Great Crag |