Saturday, February 23, 2013

Blake Fell & Gavel Fell

Yesterday we headed out onto the fells with Peter (who had been working in the area).

We started off at Cogra Moss

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These look like waves on the water but it is in fact frozen like that

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Heading off on the forest track

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This beck is pretty frozen too

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Looking down on the end of the forest track.  It had been a gentle climb in the trees, this got the lungs working.

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It soon became gentler as got closer to the summit

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Knock Murton with a little of Cogra Moss in view

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We have reached the summit, looking back at where we had walked

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The west end of Ennerdale is just visible

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A panorama from the summit

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In the distance Fleetwith Pike & Buttermere

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Zooming in on Crag Fell & Ennerdale

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The summit shelter on Blake Fell 573m

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Grasmoor & Crummock Water

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A gentle descent before a short climb to our next summit

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The view looking west with Knock Murton

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Looking at our next summit Gavel Fell 526m

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We retrace our steps to begin with

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Knock Murton & Cogra Moss

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After a lunch stop we decide we have time to loop Cogra Moss on the forest track rather than head straight back to the car

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We are down, looking back up at Blake Fell

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Although we had climbed these two before we had not used this route.  The walk was about 4hours and it was great to catch up with Peter again

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