Walk Information
Walk route: Gatesgarth - Peggy's Bridge - Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Blackbeck Tarn - Dubs Quarry - Warnscale Bottom - Gatesgarth
Distance: 5.25 miles
Ascent: 1,650ft
Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
With: on own
Conditions: Light winds, dry, tops in cloud. The big thaw is on, mild temperatures and heavy rain recently means that much of the snow has gone
Route Map
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Photos
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The track to Peggy's Bridge. The Scarth Gap path heads up left but first goes round the right side of the trees
Haystacks from Peggy's Bridge over Warnscale Beck
This damage is the result of last November's heavy rain and floods
Looking ahead to Haystacks
Scarth Gap Pass
Haystacks' summit
Innominate Tarn, still frozen
Dubs Bottom
Warnscale Beck
Buttermere and a glimpse of Crummock Water from the old mine track down to Gatesgarth
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