As part of Keswick Mountain Festival 2012 I shall be leading a walk over Seathwaite Fell and up Great End via the Band on Thursday 17th May next year. This superb walk threads an almost untrod way over an area of fell which many people think they know well. Loads of you will have walked up to Sty head Tarn and past Sprinkling Tarn to Esk Hause but how many have explored the fell beyond Sprinkling Tarn? You may gave plodded over the boulders above Esk Hause to the top of Great End but how many have realised that the forboding cliffs of the north face of Great End hide a delightful ridge with easy scrambling?
Here are a few photos from an ascent of Great End by this route in 2009.
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Route up the grassy rake to the Band from above Sprinkling Tarn
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Sprinkling Tarn with Skiddaw in the distance
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| View back down to Seathwaite Fell and Borrowdale from the ridge |
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| View across to Great Gable with Styhead Tarn below |
I can't promise such glorious weather as there was on this day but why don't you come and join me. Go on the KMF site to book
http://www.keswickmountainfestival.co.uk/
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