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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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Crinkle Crags. The depression takes its name from a number of small pools, often two, but sometimes more after rain. Busco Sike flowing to the east is the longest feeder of Oxendale Beck in Great Langdale.
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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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Bowfell the main ridge drops to the depression of Ore Gap, named after its reddish soil, rich in
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Looking south-west from just under Bow Fell summit towards Eskdale under darkening skies
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The Southern Fells include the highest ground in England, a horseshoe which begins with
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Bowfell from Shelter Crags, about 1 mi (1.5 km) south along the ridge
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Illustrated walk. Bowfell circular _ From Langdale via the Band, Esk pike
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in the Lake District and one of the most popular of the Lake District
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across Langdale — according to Wainwright, the piece of the view is
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Southward of Bowfell the ridge falls steeply to Three Tarns, the
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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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583:The pyramid shape of Bowfell viewed from Lingcove
242:Show map of the former South Lakeland district
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209:Show map of the former Borough of Copeland
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491:The predominant rocks on Bowfell are the
518:The highest point carries not so much a
735:A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
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849:Coniston Old Man (Old Man of Coniston)
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980:Full list of Wainwrights by area
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924:Pike O'Blisco (Pike of Blisco)
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173:Location in the Lake District
715:England & Wales Sheet 38
206:Location in Copeland Borough
622:Bowfell from Great Langdale
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1004:Fells of the Lake District
350:866 metres (2,840 ft)
239:Location in South Lakeland
51:902 m (2,959 ft)
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713:: 1:50,000 series maps,
672:Exploring Lakeland Tarns
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1014:South Lakeland District
692:Complete Lakeland Fells
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125:54.44737°N 3.16582°W
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637:from Bowfell
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954:Slight Side
874:Great Carrs
824:Allen Crags
416:to take in
372:maps) is a
321:of Bowfell
305:Landrangers
128: /
103:Coordinates
67:Parent peak
993:Categories
904:Holme Fell
894:Hard Knott
889:Grey Friar
884:Green Crag
829:Black Fell
738:, Book 4:
655:References
496:sandstones
452:Angle Tarn
437:Borrowdale
400:Topography
113:54°26′51″N
92:Wainwright
57:Prominence
969:Whin Rigg
964:Wetherlam
959:Swirl How
879:Great End
869:Glaramara
844:Cold Pike
839:Brim Fell
560:Cold Pike
444:haematite
418:Great End
380:, in the
259:, England
141:Geography
116:3°09′57″W
47:Elevation
1009:Nuttalls
914:Lingmell
864:Esk Pike
859:Dow Crag
635:Scafells
564:Long Top
539:Panorama
504:breccias
500:andesite
422:Esk Pike
386:mountain
366:Bow Fell
345:NY244070
329:Grid ref
309:Explorer
297:Topo map
289:NY245064
253:Location
939:Scafell
834:Bowfell
570:Gallery
545:Ascents
487:Geology
414:Eskdale
406:Scafell
374:pyramid
364:(named
362:Bowfell
354:Nuttall
335:Status
307:89, 90
283:OS grid
257:Cumbria
233:Bowfell
200:Bowfell
167:Bowfell
96:Marilyn
88:Nuttall
79:Listing
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510:Summit
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332:Height
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520:cairn
390:fells
760:ISBN
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