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Patterdale village |
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A little over a hundred yards south of the White Lion Hotel a minor road leads to Rooking and the start of the ascent |
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At a bend in the road a gate gives access to the open fellside |
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On the path to Boredale Hause |
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Looking back to Glenridding and Sheffield Pike from the start of the climb |
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There is a choice of paths for the climb to Boredale Hause. Both paths converge just below the top of the pass |
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Looking across Patterdale to Thornhow End on Birks |
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Midway along the path to Boredale Hause, which is the low point on the right |
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Kirkstone Pass flanked by Caudale Moor and Red Screes |
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Near the top of the path to Boredale Hause |
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Looking back to Glenridding and Ullswater from near the top of the path |
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Boredale Hause |
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Hart Crag and Fairfield from Boredale Hause |
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Helvellyn and Catstycam from Boredale Hause |
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The south ridge of Place Fell from Boredale Hause |
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Hart Crag, Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag from the foot of the east ridge |
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The path has been re-aligned and improved in recent years to combat erosion |
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Looking back to Boredale Hause from the start of the climb |
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Initially the path heads towards Hawk Crag on the south east slopes before making a sweeping turn back towards the south ridge |
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Looking down to Boredale Hause from the south east slope |
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The path turning back towards the south ridge |
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From the same point looking back along the new path |
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Some sections of the path have been stone pitched on the steeper climb up the south ridge |
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Brothers Water and Red Screes from the south ridge |
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Glenridding from the south ridge |
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Approaching the summit ridge where the path enters a steep gully amid a belt of low crags these can be avoided by a faint path leading to the left below them |
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Looking across to St. Sunday Crag from the gully |
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Looking down from the top of the gully |
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Looking along the summit ridge to the trig point from the top of the gully |
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From the same point, the foot of Ullswater above the summit of Hallin Fell |
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Brothers Water and Kirkstone Pass |
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Patterdale and Grisedale |
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Approaching the summit of Place Fell |
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The summit trig point |
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The Nab and High Raise from the summit |
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Rest Dodd, High Street, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag and Ill Bell |
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Caudale Moor |
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Brothers Water, Kirkstone Pass and Red Screes |
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Hart Crag, Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag |
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St. Sunday Crag, Dollywaggon Pike and Nethermost Pike above Grisedale |
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Helvellyn and Catstycam above Birkhouse Moor |
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White Side, Raise and Stybarrow Dodd on the horizon |
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Great Dodd over Hart Side with Skiddaw on the right |
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Blencathra over Watermillock Common |
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Dockray Park with Carrock Fell on the left and Great Mell Fell on the right |
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Ullswater and Hallin Fell with Arthur's Pike on the right |