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Great Gable summit – Sty Head Stretcher Box loop from Wasdale

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Great Gable summit – Sty Head Stretcher Box loop from Wasdale

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Great Gable summit – Sty Head Stretcher Box loop from Wasdale

03:07

16.3km

1,020m

Running

Hard run. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: April 16, 2026

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Lake District National Park

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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1.34 km

Wasdale Head Car Park

Highlight • Parking

Great place to start your adventure. Get there early as gets full quick. This is FREE car park. Please remember to put some coins in the collection boxes.

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1.75 km

Packhorse Bridge Over Mosedale Beck

Highlight • Historical Site

Quirky little bridge at the start of the Black Sail Pass route.

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3.56 km

Mosedale Valley

Highlight • Viewpoint

A wild side valley that branches off to the northwest of Upper Wasdale, Mosedale is a beautiful place to explore. It is ringed by some of the Lake District's most …

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6.39 km

Kirk Fell Summit

Highlight • Viewpoint

Kirk Fell is one of Alfred Wainwright's 214 fells of Lakeland. The summit offers brilliant views down Wasdale to Wast Water, but my favourite view from here has to be …

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6.93 km

Kirk Fell East Top

Peak

8.32 km

Beck Head Tarn

Highlight • Trail

This is the col between Kirk Fell and Great Gable and the view down to Wast Water from here is simply brilliant! A great place to stop and have lunch.

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9.01 km

Great Gable summit

Highlight • Natural Monument

A humongous, rugged mass of rock and crags and cliffs, Great Gable is captivating to look at: an unbroken, devilish pyramid from the south; the dome of a sleeping, curled-up …

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9.50 km

Windy Gap

Highlight • Viewpoint

This is one of those places in the Lakes where you really feel as though you're in true mountain country. Windy Gap, a col between Gables Green and Great, is …

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10.6 km

Styhead Tarn

Lake

11.0 km

Sty Head Stretcher Box

Highlight • Trail

Sty Head is the apex of an ancient and wild trade route between Borrowdale and Wasdale, the Styhead Pass. Right in the mountainous heart of the Lake District, it separates …

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16.3 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.13 km

7.05 km

1.61 km

523 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

6.08 km

5.44 km

2.12 km

1.64 km

481 m

396 m

166 m

Elevation

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Highest point (870 m)

Lowest point (70 m)

Weather

Friday 10 July

27°C

16°C

44 %

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Great Gable summit – Sty Head Stretcher Box loop from Wasdale

Wasdale Head Car Park

Packhorse Bridge Over Mosedale Beck

Mosedale Valley

Kirk Fell Summit

Beck Head Tarn

Great Gable summit

Windy Gap

Sty Head Stretcher Box

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