Crinkle Crags
Crinkle Crags in the Southern Lake District Fells
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Crinkle Crags from Langdale
A great day in good snow today climbing The Crinkle Crags from the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale, great views early on before the cloud came in on the tops.
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The Crinkles from Langdale
A very wild day today climbing the Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, a little warm and wet on the tops and truly wild wind as we descended The Band back to Langdale.
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Crinkles & Bowfell
A great day climbing the Crinkles and Bowfell from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, despite cloudy tops we had a great day on these magnificent mountains.
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The Crinkles from Langdale
A good day climbing The Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, despite some strong wind after lunch we had a great day
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Crinkle Crags from Langdale
A blustery day on the Crinkle Crags, climbing from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley and descending by The Band
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Bowfell &The Crinkles
A great day exploring Bowfell, The Great Slab and the Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley.
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Bowfell & The Crinkles
A wonderful day climbing Bowfell and The Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, we even added the summits of Cold Pike and Pike O'Blisco to the day.
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Bowfell and the Crinkles
A glorious day today climbing the Crinkles and Bowfell from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley.
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Crinkles & Bowfell
A great day climbing The Crinkles and Bowfell from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, wonderful views despite a poor weather forecast.
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The Crinkles
A great day in the snow on the Crinkle Crags today, climbing from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel by The Band and descending over Cold Pike and Red Tarn. -
Bowfell & the Crinkles
A great day today climbing Bowfell and the Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll.
We set off from the Old Dungeon Ghyll climbing The Band, it was quite hard work today in the heat, but as we climbed higher there was a little more breeze.
From The Band we climbed onto the Climbers Traverse and followed this to the foot of the Great Slab and climbed the slab emerging a short walk away from the summit of Bowfell.
The views today were a bit hazy, but from the summit of Bowfell we had a wonderful view across Upper Eskdale to the Scafell Range.
After a short lunch stop we left Bowfell and descended to Three Tarns, climbing again by the Shelter Crags and onto The Crinkles following this wonderful ridge to Long Top, the highest of the Crinkle Crags, descending by the 'Bad Step' and crossing the final Crinkle.
We descended the long slope down to Red Tarn deciding to include the summit of Pike O'Blisco making short work of the steep climb to the summit. By now Bowfell and the Crinkles were in cloud, but the views over the Langdale Valley were good.
We descended the path east from the summit of Pike O'Blisco dropping eventually down to the roadside just above Side Farm and following the lane back to the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel.
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Bowfell & The Great Slab, The Crinkles, Cold Pike and Pike 'O Blisco
A wonderful day climbing Bowfell and the Crinkles from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in the Langdale Valley, climbing the Climbers Traverse before descending over Cold Pike and Pike O'Blisco. -
Bowfell and the Crinkles
A good day climbing Bowfell and the Crinkle Crags today, the weather wasn't great but we had a good time climbing Bowfell by the Climbers Traverse and the Great Slab.
As we set off from the Old Dungeon Ghyll this morning the weather was looking promising with only the tops of The Crinkles and Bowfell in the cloud but as we climbed The Band the rain set in continuing for the rest of the day.
We climbed from The Band onto the Climbers Traverse to the foot of Bowfell Buttress, although this was invisible in the mist, and climbed The Great Slab to the summit of Bowfell.
We didn't stop for long on the top of Bowfell, the view wasn't up to much, so we descended south to Three Tarns and cmbed by the Shelter Crags, stopping for lunch in the shelter of the crags while the rain briefly stopped.
We continued crossing the Crinkle Crags climbing to the summit of Long Top, the highest of The Crinkles and descended by the newly laid path crossing the final Crinkle and descending out of the cloud to Red Tarn.
From Red Tarn we climbed to the summit of Pike O'Blisco back in the cloud before descending the southern path from the summit, the pitched path was very slippery and took some care to descend but we made it down to the road and the Old Dungeon Ghyll in one piece.
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Bowfell & The Crinkles
A wonderful day on Bowfell and the Crinkles today, we set off from the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale at 10am and climbed along The Band, into the thick cloud pretty quickly. This continued as we climbed towards the Climbers Traverse path, the snow was getting thicker as we climbed, but at this level it was still pretty wet snow, we decided against the Climbers Traverse path and climbed directly to the summit, emerging from the cloud as we climbed, through now thicker and firmer drier snow.
We were rewarded with a Brocken Spectre as we climbed towards the summit. We took shelter from the cool wind on the summit of Bowfell and watched as the cloud blew over the Scafell Range while we ate our sandwiches.
After lunch we descended to Three Tarnsas we ppassed the top of the Great Slab we saw another Brocken Spectre, over the slab. We descended to Three Tarns and followed the ridge climbing onto the Crinkles. The snow at three tarns was a little wetter again, but it improved again as we climbed onto the Crinkle Crags.
The skies cleared throughout the afternoon giving us some wonderful views from Long Top, the highest of the Crinkles. We descended by Bad Step and crossed the final Crinkle and followed the long slope down to Red Tarn and the Brown Howe path down to Oxendale and the Langdale Valley, a wonderful day in the snow.
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The Crinkles
A great day on the Crinkle Crags today, yesterdays rain meant that all the waterfalls were full and spectacular.
We climbed from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel to Red Tarn and followed the ridge over the Crinkles, stopping for lunch on the first crinkle before climbing to Long Top, the highest Crinkle via the 'Bad Step'.
We were just in the cloud on the tops with occasional views down into Langdale and Eskdale, but as we descended towards Three Tarns we dropped below the cloud base and were rewarded with some great views all around.
We descended in sunshine down The Band to Stool End Farm and back to the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel.
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