Please note this is a strenuous walk and is therefore not suitable for those with little hill walking experience.
Walk: Great Gable from Honister
Date: 26th April 2016, Sunday
Start point: Café car park - Grid Reference NY 225135. This is a car park looking down the Honister pass. Do not confuse this with Youth Hostel Car Park. Car park charge £5 per day. There is no mobile network at car park.
Meet time: 8:30 AM
Start time: 8:45 AM
Distance: 6 miles approximately
Grade: Strenuous.
Description:
The walk description below is copied from the walking taxi driver website and we will be following the exact path described on the website. http://www.walkingwiththetaxidriver.co.uk/the-walks/cumbria/great-gable-via-green-gable-from-honister-slate-mine-round/
From the car park take the path behind the slate mine sign posted Grey Knotts. We climb and scramble steeply uphill following the fence line on the right. We pass a stile and at the second stile we cross over and keep following the fence now on our left. At the end of the fence we turn left, we are now on the top of Grey Knotts. We head forwards on the level past some small tarns with the fence line still on our left. We go through a gate and head towards a metal post. We walk across the stony top of Brandreth to the last cairn and keep heading forwards downhill then uphill to the summit of Green Gable. We now make our way very steeply downhill taking care on the scree to the cross roads of paths at the bottom, this is Windy Gap. We now head forwards steeply uphill scrambling over the rocks to the top. We keep following the path which bears left on the level to the summit of Great Gable. We then retrace our steps back to Windy Gap and turn left steeply downhill again taking care on the scree towards the valley. At the cross roads of paths we turn right slightly uphill towards the hill. The path bears right and after crossing over a stream the path bears left onto Moses Trod. We keep heading forwards and when the path splits we turn right to go over a stile in the fence. We head forwards to a track and a cairn. We turn left and follow the track, which bears right then head forward following the cairns to a wall and the old tramway. We turn right and follow the old tramway downhill back to the car park.
Contact: Ron on 24th June by 1:00 pm if you are coming. Mobile: 07707603848
RON RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AMEND, SHORTEN OR CANCEL THE WALK SUBJECT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS
Walk: Great Gable from Honister
Date: 26th April 2016, Sunday
Start point: Café car park - Grid Reference NY 225135. This is a car park looking down the Honister pass. Do not confuse this with Youth Hostel Car Park. Car park charge £5 per day. There is no mobile network at car park.
Meet time: 8:30 AM
Start time: 8:45 AM
Distance: 6 miles approximately
Grade: Strenuous.
Description:
The walk description below is copied from the walking taxi driver website and we will be following the exact path described on the website. http://www.walkingwiththetaxidriver.co.uk/the-walks/cumbria/great-gable-via-green-gable-from-honister-slate-mine-round/
From the car park take the path behind the slate mine sign posted Grey Knotts. We climb and scramble steeply uphill following the fence line on the right. We pass a stile and at the second stile we cross over and keep following the fence now on our left. At the end of the fence we turn left, we are now on the top of Grey Knotts. We head forwards on the level past some small tarns with the fence line still on our left. We go through a gate and head towards a metal post. We walk across the stony top of Brandreth to the last cairn and keep heading forwards downhill then uphill to the summit of Green Gable. We now make our way very steeply downhill taking care on the scree to the cross roads of paths at the bottom, this is Windy Gap. We now head forwards steeply uphill scrambling over the rocks to the top. We keep following the path which bears left on the level to the summit of Great Gable. We then retrace our steps back to Windy Gap and turn left steeply downhill again taking care on the scree towards the valley. At the cross roads of paths we turn right slightly uphill towards the hill. The path bears right and after crossing over a stream the path bears left onto Moses Trod. We keep heading forwards and when the path splits we turn right to go over a stile in the fence. We head forwards to a track and a cairn. We turn left and follow the track, which bears right then head forward following the cairns to a wall and the old tramway. We turn right and follow the old tramway downhill back to the car park.
Contact: Ron on 24th June by 1:00 pm if you are coming. Mobile: 07707603848
RON RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AMEND, SHORTEN OR CANCEL THE WALK SUBJECT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS
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