Just back from a BG reccie - makes a useful circuit, leg 3/4
Glorious day, but hot yesterday.
Start seathwaite up grains gill to esk hause, then drop down to rosset taking in bowfell, or to shorten it join before great end.then round rest leg3' and all leg 4 to green gable.
A mainly grassy descent from green gable of mile or so down to sour milk gill , a bit of a scramble, and the car.. Turns out honister is only a mile from seathwaite over a grassy plateau to sour milk, so can go all the way to honister this way although did not do that looks fine on the ground All of the rough stuff and the crux of the round in one reccie.
Planning a bigger one. Start rossthwaite up green upedge to high raise, ( roughly 3 mile) then most if leg 3 all 4. , 5 up to dalehead, then use the borrowdale rcae descent to get straight back to rossthwaite..and car At standard pace that is 10 hours. The useful aspect is that only an hour and a half is off the route, yet starts and finishes in the same place.
Food for thought?
Makes a good day on the hills
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