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Lake District Borrowdale: Base Brown

Lake District Borrowdale: Base Brown


Postby jonathan - norfolk » Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:19 pm

Wainwrights included on this walk: Base Brown

Hewitts included on this walk: Base Brown

Date walked: 03/08/2020

Time taken: 2.5

Distance: 6.25 km

Ascent: 565m

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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.

2020.08.03 Base Brown Web.jpg
Base Brown summit cairn


Length: 7.25 km / 4.5 miles Ascent: +565 m / 1750'.
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