| Lingmell and Scafell Pike |
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| Date |
25/10/2003 |
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LINGMELL - Summit cairns are welcome sights, but they are seldom objects of beauty or admiration. Here, however, on the highest point of Lingmell, is one of singular elegance, a graceful 10 foot spire that quite puts to shame the squat and inartistic edifice crowning the neighbouring very superior Scafell Pike SCAFELL PIKE - this is the summit of England and it is fitting that it should be sturdy and rugged and strong A. Wainwright |
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| Walks done by: |
Jed and Tony |
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| Weather: |
Cold, Windy, Sunny and one hours continual rain |
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| Distance |
6 miles |
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| Started at: |
Lay-by near NT camp site |
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| Height:- |
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| Lingmell |
2649' |
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| Scafell Pike |
3210' |
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| Similar Walk |
Lingmell & Scafell Pike 2005 |
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| Lingmell's steep ridge and our path of ascent - and it offers views all the way |
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| Half way up the ridge, and it now gets even steeper. |
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| Wast Water from the stile on ridge of Lingmell |
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| Wasdale Hotel in a patch of sunshine |
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| Pulpit Rock from the ridge |
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| No wonder everyone's taking a moment with a superb view along the valley like this one |
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| Cairn near Goat Crags. Illgill Head is to the left of Wast Water |
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| Mickledore with Scafell to the right |
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| Lingmell summit (2649') ahead |
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| Lingmell summit |
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| The superb crags on Lingmell's eastern face |
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| Styhead Tarn from Lingmell and Piers Gill far below |
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| Excellent views from Lingmell - Styhead Tarn is in the centre |
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| Scafell Pike from near Lingmell |
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| Great End, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike and Lingmell summit cairn |
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| Tony on Lingmell summit |
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| Jed on Lingmell summit |
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| Approaching Scafell Pike and the weather had closed in |
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| Scafell Pike summit and trig point |
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| And then the rain and mist came... |
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| However, these conditions were positively balmy by comparison with our 2005 walk |
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