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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75mls (15.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 3,046ft (928m) | |
| Time: | 6½ hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Hard) |
Route outline for walk c301:
- Seatoller - Borrowdale - Strands Bridge - Borrowdale - The Combe - Thornythwaite Fell - Comb Head - Glaramara - Looking Steads (Glaramara) - Red Beck - Red Beck Top - Allen Gill - High House Tarn - High House Tarn Top - Allen Crags - Esk Hause - Ruddy Gill - Sprinkling Tarn - Sty Head - Sty Head Tarn - Sty Head Gill - Stockley Bridge - Grains Gill - Seathwaite - The Allerdale Ramble - Seatoller - Borrowdale.
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
 3 English Mountains |
 2 Wainwrights |
 5 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
The highest point of this walk is Allen Crags at 785m (2576ft). Allen Crags is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (51st highest in England, 91st highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 42). Allen Crags is also known as an English Nuttall (60th in England, 109th in England & Wales).
Completing this walk also take you to the top of Glaramara, 783m (2569ft). Glaramara is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (53rd highest in England, 94th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 45). Glaramara is also known as an English Nuttall (63rd in England, 113th in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of Looking Steads (Glaramara), 775m (2544ft). Looking Steads (Glaramara) is also known as an English Nuttall (69th in England, 121st in England & Wales).
Along the way you will also bag Red Beck Top, 721m (2366ft) - an English Mountain (Hewitt) (85th Eng, 147th Eng & Wal) and an English Nuttall (107th Eng, 181st Eng & Wal) and High House Tarn Top 684m (2245ft) - an English Nuttall (149th Eng, 248th Eng & Wal).
For more details about what constitutes a Mountain and Mountain & Hill Classifications see: Peaks & Mountains.
For more details about peak bagging and how to record your achievements see: Peak Bagging.
This walk is on Ordnance Survey Maps:
| OS Explorer Maps OL4 & OL6 | |
| 1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers) |
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| OS Landranger Map 89 or 90 | |
| 1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers) |
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c301 Glaramara and Allen Crags from Seatoller, Borrowdale
In no particular order . . .
Looking down Styhead Gill from Sty Head to a sunlit Borrowdale with Bleaberry Fell the high point in the distance
Wainwrights unnamed 'perfect mountain tarn' between Glaramara and Allen Crags
Snow on Yewbarrow (North Top) left, Red Pike (centre right) and the shoulder or Kirk Fell (right) tower above Wasdale from near Sty Head
The Langdale Pikes (left), Rossett Pike (foreground left) and Esk Pike (right) from Esk Hause
Styhead Tarn, Great Gable and Green Gable from the path below Sprinkling Tarn
Scafell Pike (far left), Ill Crag and the shoulder of Great End (far right) from Esk Hause
The Scafell Massif featuring Scafell Pike (centre) and Sca Fell (centre left) from Swirl Band between Swirl How and Levers Hawse
Kirk Fell and the shoulder of Great Gable (right) with the lower slopes of Great End (left) and Red Pike (Wasdale) in the distance from Sty Head
A grand view overlooking the valley of upper Wasdale from Esk Hause with Pillar, Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Green Gable taking centre stage
Airplane wreckage below Broad Crag buttress, just off the corridor route to Scafell Pike
A dusting of snow on the shoulder of Lingmell (left), Middle Fell (centre left in the distance) and Yewbarrow above Wasdale from Sty Head
Bow Fell (Bowfell) (North Top) and Esk Pike from the shelter on Esk Hause
Yewbarrow (left) Great Gable (centre) and Lingmell (right) from across Wast Water in Wasdale
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