Gt Gable to Windy Gap

[Baggins]

Yes its the same traverse.

The grassy section can be seen from both tourist paths with the Borrowdale race route straight through the middle, that means you can cut across to it from either side.

I used to cross from the Styhead path about 10m before the large boulder, you cross about 6-10m of scree to get on the grass then head down at an angle in the direction of the gap and you will be funneled down to the traverse because you get on very rocky ground if you go too far.

The final drop to the traverse is on steep grass so it slows you down a touch, especially if you're doing a BG, by getting on the traverse by going below the boulder its less steep so better for tired legs.

I think in poor visibility I'd traverse from above the boulder still as going down felt vague ie no definite feature to give an indication on when to traverse but I'll try it a few times before deciding.

One thing to remember about any "short cut" on a round its only of use if you know where you're going, you could waste loads of time trying to relocate if it goes wrong!

[AlanB]

All good stuff. Any idea of a bearing? Roughly? Anyone?

[AlanB]

Here's something might be of even more use. The light blue line marks the route up, across and down to the traverse. Ignore the blue line to the NW, that's just my earlier trog over the Moses Trod.

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Hi Martyn - looking at this useful jpg again, is there anyway you can make the blue line more visible ? Can barely see it, in fact I've only just noticed it goes straight through the "star" which is what i thought it should do. It's looking like ENE from summit the due E. Really hard to see...