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channels. The eastern face includes Flat Crag, Cambridge Crag and the
Bowfell Buttress, the latter two providing good climbing. Flat Crag includes the Great Slab, a tilted sheet of rock. At the base of Great Slab a spring gushes forth from the bare rock: Wainwright claims, "And no water anywhere else tastes better." Below these faces runs the Climber's Traverse, a narrow path providing a high-level walking route to the summit from the highest point of The Band. This largely horizontal line contours around beneath many of Bowfell's steeper crags, finally reaching the summit via a rocky route known as the River of Boulders, running parallel to the Great Slab. Finally on the north- east corner of the summit ridge is Hanging Knotts, a complex series of faces and outcrops looking down upon Angle Tarn.
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Bowfell sends out two subsidiary ridges to the east. The Band is a descending rigg starting from the southern end of the summit plateau. It is this ridge which divides
Oxendale from Mickleden, making straight for Stool End Farm on the valley floor. The Band has a minor top about halfway down named
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The summit area is a ridge running north–south with the final pyramid near the south-west corner and crags on three sides. The southern face is formed by
Bowfell Links, a wall of rock scarred by nine vertical gullies and with corresponding tongues of scree at its foot, all of which are loose rock
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The Band provides the most popular means of ascent. Other routes from
Langdale climb via Rossett Gill and Three Tarns. Bowfell can be reached from Stonethwaite via Angle Tarn although the way is long. Equally time-consuming although perhaps more picturesque is the long march up Eskdale from
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Brotherikeld, gaining the ridge at either Ore Gap or Three Tarns. Indirect climbs can also be made via
Crinkle Crags, Esk Pike or Rossett Pike. The summit can also be reached from the top of
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White Stones, although most guidebooks do not consider it notable. The second ridge begins at the northern end of the summit plateau and crosses
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as a rearrangement of some loose rock at the apex of the pyramid. Every major group of fells in
Lakeland is seen from this vantage-point — the
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Illustrated walk. Bowfell circular _ From Langdale via the Band, Esk pike
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across Langdale — according to Wainwright, the piece of the view is
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The view south-east from the Great Slab, looking towards
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Mountain in the English Lake District, Cumbria, England
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outcropping near the summit. The pebbly sandstone and
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in the west and then curves around the north of Upper
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by following the Right of Way starting close to the
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of the Seathwaite Fell Formation, with interbeds of
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Great Slab on Bowfell, from the 'river of boulders'
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220:Show map of the former Borough of Copeland
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502:The predominant rocks on Bowfell are the
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184:Location in the Lake District
726:England & Wales Sheet 38
217:Location in Copeland Borough
633:Bowfell from Great Langdale
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361:866 metres (2,840 ft)
250:Location in South Lakeland
62:902 m (2,959 ft)
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1025:South Lakeland District
703:Complete Lakeland Fells
910:Harter Fell (Eskdale)
136:54.44737°N 3.16582°W
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965:Slight Side
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383:maps) is a
332:of Bowfell
316:Landrangers
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114:Coordinates
78:Parent peak
1004:Categories
915:Holme Fell
905:Hard Knott
900:Grey Friar
895:Green Crag
840:Black Fell
749:, Book 4:
666:References
507:sandstones
463:Angle Tarn
448:Borrowdale
411:Topography
124:54°26′51″N
103:Wainwright
68:Prominence
980:Whin Rigg
975:Wetherlam
970:Swirl How
890:Great End
880:Glaramara
855:Cold Pike
850:Brim Fell
571:Cold Pike
455:haematite
429:Great End
391:, in the
270:, England
152:Geography
127:3°09′57″W
58:Elevation
1020:Nuttalls
925:Lingmell
875:Esk Pike
870:Dow Crag
646:Scafells
575:Long Top
550:Panorama
515:breccias
511:andesite
433:Esk Pike
397:mountain
377:Bow Fell
356:NY244070
340:Grid ref
320:Explorer
308:Topo map
300:NY245064
264:Location
950:Scafell
845:Bowfell
581:Gallery
556:Ascents
498:Geology
425:Eskdale
417:Scafell
385:pyramid
375:(named
373:Bowfell
365:Nuttall
346:Status
318:89, 90
294:OS grid
268:Cumbria
244:Bowfell
211:Bowfell
178:Bowfell
107:Marilyn
99:Nuttall
90:Listing
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