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5 Feb
7:04pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Dave A
It was a great day out. Walked in from Chapel Stile, which is why Rossett Gill was done twice. Avoided the out and back over Green Gable by cutting down towards Styhead Tarn from Base Brown.
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5 Feb
7:04pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Dave A
Haven’t heard the in and out term either.
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5 Feb
7:10pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Windsor Wool
Dave A wrote: It was a great day out. Walked in from Chapel Stile, which is why Rossett Gill was done twice. Avoided the out and back over Green Gable by cutting down towards Styhead Tarn from Base Brown. Pleased to hear that! I checked your log. Massive day at a pace I can’t comprehend. Bravo. |
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5 Feb
7:13pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Dave A
Probably a bit beyond my current fitness levels. Training recently has been a bit of walking and climbing, not overly focused on walking that far or that long.Will see how the legs feel in the morning.
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5 Feb
7:22pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
Windsor Wool wrote: sounds like you had a really enjoyable day Dave!!! I’ve been listening to the Wainwright Ramblers podcast that I hate but is strangely addictive. Today I got through their Great Gable ascent that they did from Honister as an in-and-out* over Brandreth / Green Gable. By including Base Brown and strictly adhering to the paths, they managed to summit Green Gable 3 times in one walk!! * never heard anyone else use this term. For me it’s an out-and-back. Perhaps I’m missing something…. I dislike that term too. I've just checked my routes because what you wrote above rang a bell and it might be of interest to some of you .... there's a really nice line that we used for when we did the Great Gifts Round and I recommend it: Off Gable on the Borrowdale race descent, Windy Gap -> Green Gable then off towards Base Brown on a rough bearing of 55 towards the col and up to Base Brown. Then, around the head of Gillercomb on the 600 - 620m metre contour and intersect the line to Brandreth north of Gillercomb Head, it's a neat piece of work and you don't have to stick to any paths  Dave - updated. I concur that Aaron Slack is fucking horrible in either direction DT - Isn't the Rossett Gill path that Dave mentions exactly the same thing as the the pack horse trail that Wainwright describes? There are precious few options going up Langdale if you're trying to reach the higher fells. |
5 Feb
7:28pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Derby Tup
I assumed he meant the wretched rubbly trod by the gill itself. In fairness I haven’t been there in years NE sadly
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5 Feb
7:39pm, 5 Feb 2025
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DrMags
Had a lovely afternoon hike up Binsey Fell today, my second Wainwright as an adult (other one was Blencathra).
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5 Feb
7:41pm, 5 Feb 2025
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DrMags
@Northern Exile can you list me with the magnificent number 2 😊
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5 Feb
7:46pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Dave A
Binsey is always nice and quiet. A nice and fairly gentle walk.
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5 Feb
7:52pm, 5 Feb 2025
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Dave A
I was thinking of adding an out and back on for Brandreth and Grey Knotts. One I’d done Aaron Slack I knew it wasn’t happening today. Will have to make a route up from Honister to also take in Fleetwith Pike. Although they will be 3 repeats that I hadn’t previously counted. Today was one repeat, Green Gable. The other two were new. |
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