6 Wainwrights from Honister Hause

[gld73]

Didn't have any route in particular planned, thought I'd set off from Honister Hause and just try and do a handful of hills. The weather was fantastic, made finding my way between the fells really easy. Route ended up as Honister Hause - Grey Knotts - Brandreth - Green Gable - Base Brown - back to ground between Brandreth and Green Gable - Haystacks - Fleetwith Pike - Honister Hause. Very roughly this route:

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Initial ascent towards Grey Knotts, looking back down on the buildings and car parks at Honister

Should have labelled these photos soon after doing the walk rather than looking at them months later - this was maybe Grey Knotts eastern summit..?

...and this the western one? (Took too many photos to know what they were now, months later!)

Brandreth summit

Looking towards Green Gable from Brandreth (Great Gable behind in the cloud)

Continuing along a well worn path towards Green Gable

Kirk Fell and Pillar

Green Gable summit with Great Gable now clear

Ennerdale and Buttermere valleys from Green Gable

View south from Green Gable summit

I always love seeing Herdwick lambs with their mums, you wouldn't think they were the same breed

Base Brown looking back to Green Gable

Base Brown looking NW to Brandreth and Grey Knotts

Starting the walk towards Haystacks, looking S to Green Gable and Great Gable

Great views as I headed towards Haystacks in the middle; Ennerdale valley (L) and Buttermere valley (R)

...and the non-pano version

Innominate Tarn (looking back to Green Gable, Great Gable and Kirk Fell)

Wasn't sure which cairn on Haystacks was the true summit, so I went to both; this the first one.

Looking further along the ridge (to High Stile?). Not continuing along today though.

The second cairn visited on the summit area of Haystacks, looking back south to the first

Looking along Buttermere and Crummock Water as I started to head down, by Blackbeck Tarn and Green Crag

Hadn't been intending to do Fleetwith Pike, but it's been about 20 years since I was last up it, so headed up past Dubs slate quarry

The view down Buttermere and Crummock Water from Fleetwith Pike's summit

Down past Hopper slate quarry (I think?), bringing to an end a great day in peaceful hills

Just followed the mine track back to the car at Honister Hause

[Gordie12]

This looks like a really good circuit (I've done half of these hills as the C2C route goes from Ennerdale to Honister).

Where are all the peeps (the time I was on Haystacks it was a Tuesday afternoon in June and it was mobbed)???????????

[gld73]

I saw a few people through the day, but in drips and drabs and nobody taking the same route as me. I'm used to doing hills in the Highlands, often midweek as I'm a shift worker, so if I see a handful of people on a walk, it feels mobbed to me