Borrowdale Tops - Glaramara to Great End

• Rosthwaite Fell551 m · NY258124
• Glaramara783 m · NY245104
• Allen Crags785 m · NY236085
• Great End910 m · NY226083
• Seathwaite Fell601 m · NY229101

Route

Seatoller to Stonethwaite, up past Tarn at Leaves to Rosthwaite Fell (Bessyboot), then along the pathless knobbly ridge over Rosthwaite Cam and Combe Head to Glaramara and on to Allen Crags. Over Esk Hause to Great End, back to Sprinkling Tarn, out to Seathwaite Fell and down to Seathwaite and Seatoller.

Dog hazards

Upper end of Amber. Bessyboot has a tiny scramble; the ridge has rocky obstructions the path mostly skirts and crag edges, and there's a sheer drop into Ruddy Gill beside the return path. Glaramara's summit is a 10 m scramble - pass about 50 m to the west (or skirt the east side) instead. Getting off Seathwaite Fell is the hardest bit: steep, pathless grass gullies on the north-west side.

Scrambles

Glaramara summit (10 m) - use the bypass. Steep pathless descent off Seathwaite Fell.

Water

Tarns all along: Tarn at Leaves, Lincomb Tarns, Sprinkling Tarn.

Livestock

Sheep; cattle at Seathwaite farm.

Notes

Can add Scafell Pike + Lingmell from Esk Hause if you skip S2's descent problems - very long though.