The Seventh Pass - Saturday 11th May '19

Actually, it's the sixth and seventh passes, but I thought this was a punchier title.

During our two attempts at the seven we never descended into Ennerdale, so we have just Black Sail and the Loft Beck Crossing outstanding.  You can refer to earlier posts dated 27th June '16 and 26th June '18 to see just what we did do. YJ has devised the following to complete the job:-

The planned route starts at the southern end of Borrowdale; we'll need to settle on a suitable place to park and meet.

Then we climb to Sty Head and descend into Wasdale on the path adjacent to Lingmell Beck, thereby avoiding the more rocky tourist route below Great Gable and Kirk Fell.

From Wasdale Head we go up Mosedale and then using Black Sail we pass over into Ennerdale, descending close to the Black Sail hut.

Then it's up to the Loft Beck crossing, down to Honister and then down the drovers' route to the north of the motor road, and thereby back into Borrowdale. It's about twelve miles, so not a lot of distance, but a fair bit of climbing and, given reasonable visibility, we should see a decent amount of country.

As it stands, we have three takers, one more would make a car load, but the more the merrier!