We all tend to do the most popular ones first leaving some pretty dull ones at the end, but luckily my final two were Slight Side & Lingmell (one of those I'd often walked past), this was partly by default but also it made for a brilliant "final" day taking in Scafell & Scafell Pike in between.
The Scafell Range from left to right, Slight Side (Scafell hidden behind), Scafell Pike, Broad Crag, Ill Gill & Great End
On this occasion, because of start & finish point, I accessed Slight Side from the path towards Burnmoor Tarn, but is it probably better approached from Eskdale
Slight Side & Scafell behind & to the left
Slight Side is a promotory to the south of Scafell, it it relativelly featureless but does have nice rocky peak. From there it is an easy ridge walk to Scafell itself. The easiest route to Scafell Pike is via Foxes Tarn - is this the smallest named tarn in the Lake District - please correct me if I am wrong. This is a longer route than Broad Stand and losed more height, but I am simply too old for that now, and it is a non-trivial descent itself in icy conditions.
Rocky summit of Scafell Pike
From the bottom of the Foxes Tarn gulley, back up to Mickledore and then up the rocky but easy gradient to the crowded summit of Scafell Pike, then down the start of the Corridor Route.
Scafell from Lingmell, Pikes Crag to the left
Lingmell is a short diverson from Lingmell col on the Corridor Route, as I mentioned, I'd walked past it many times, but it is well worth a visit, great views, despite being lower than anything around.
And there is a fab cairn - not as good as
Thornthwaite Crag admittedly nor as spectacular as
Westmorland Cairn on Great Gable, but a great place to enjoy the moment and sign off. Now just the Corridor Route to get down.
Great Gable in evening light from the valley, before attending to fluid balance at the
Wasdale Head Inn- now brews it's own beer - Nathan & I can recommend Brown Tongue - several times over, but not on this occasion as I was driving.