A fantastic day above Langdale today climbing from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel we headed up climbing to the summit of Pike O'Blisco, great weather so far although some of the high tops were in cloud, including the Crinkles and Bowfell.

We continued past Red Tarn and up the gentle path to the First Crinkle, the cloud was coming and going over the ridge all the climb, but by the time we reached the First Crinkle the cloud had lifted, we stopped here for our lunches before continuing onto the second top, Long Top, the highest of the Crinkle Crags, via the 'Bad Step'.

After a brief stop on each of the remaining Crinkles we continued over the Shelter Crags down to Three Tarns before climbing the steep path to the summit of Bowfell, the Scafells were still in a little cloud but all other tops were clear by now, although it did look very dark further east over Hight Street and the Pennines.

We descended to the top of Bowfell to the top of the Great Slab, descending over the Slab to the base of Bowfell Buttress and following the Climbers Traverse to meet the top of The Band path and followed this down to the valley and back to the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel.

A fantastic days walking.

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.

An absoloutely amazing day climbing some of Langdales finest.

I met Terry and Carol at the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and we set off to make our way  up the band. The sun was already high in the extremely clear skies, and we knew it was going to be a hot one! We made our way up The Band towards Bowfell, and as we got higher our views of The Langdale Pikes and the Crinkles just got better and better! We took the climbers traverse off of The Band and made our way to the base of The Great Slab. We climbed to the summit of Bowfell via the path alongside the impressive Great Slab, from where we for incredible views in all directions. We stopped just off of the summit for a bite to eat, during which we enjoyed one of the best views of the Scafells.

After lunch we descended to the Three Tarns before starting the next part of our journey over The Crinkle Crags. We climbed up and over the different Crinkles, and as we got to Long Top (the highest) we opted to avoid The Bad Step. With the Crinkles under our belts we walked across easier ground towards Cold Pike. On the way we took in Great Knott, and then climbed the short distance up to the summit of Cold Pike.

We enjoyed another stop on this summit, which is a great viewpoint back over The Crinkles with Bowfell behind. Still enjoying the afternoon sun we descended down to Red tarn before re-ascending up to our final summit of the day, Pike O' Blisco. We took a few minutes on this summit to soak up what we had achieved over this route, before starting our descent back to the valley floor.

On our way down a Hercules flew through the valley across the face of the Langdales which was highly impressive.  We got back to the ODG just as the sun was setting behind The Crinkles to provide us with one final great view of our entire route. An amazing route, and Happy Birthday Carol!

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.

A good day today climbing the Crinkle Crags from the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in Langdale.

We climbed from Stool End up The Band, making good progress up the path to Three Tarns, at Three Tarns the wind was quite strong, and we were in quite thick cloud, but we pressed on, crossing the Shelter Crags and then up onto the Crinkles, crossing the ridge in good time and were soon coming down of the final Crinkle by Cold Pike and down to Red Tarn, we were just dropping out of the cloud as we came down to Red Tarn and as we dropped down the path towards the valley we had some good views over the Langdale Pikes and even a brief glimpse of the Crinkles ridge as it emerged from the cloud for a short while.

We dropped down into Oxendale and followed the track back by Stool End to the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a great days walking.