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A good day climbing Pike O'Blisco and Cold Pike from Langdale, not many views as the cloud was pretty low but the forecast rain held off much of the day.
January 10, 2014
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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.
August 10, 2013
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A great day above the Langdale Valley climbing Pike O'Blisco and Cold Pike. Wonderful views and great company, a truly stunning day in the fells.
June 4, 2013
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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.
February 3, 2013
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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.
June 2, 2012
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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.
March 22, 2012
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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.
October 2, 2011
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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.
August 2, 2010
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