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This a relatively short and easy, but very pleasant, ascent with a real mountain feel about it.
It is possible to shorten the route by taking a more direct route, although a group ahead of me took this option and arrived at the top quite a while after I did. In the wet it's probably more advisable to follow the route that I did up Gillercomb alongside Sour Milk Gill until it meets the path leading up to summit from the obvious col. I returned the same way.
On a personal note, the ascent meant that I had completed all of Wainwright's Western Fells.
- Base Brown summit cairn
Length: 7.25 km / 4.5 miles Ascent: +565 m / 1750'.