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Scafell Pike

Brown Tongue box-tickers

and Corridor connoisseurs

meet at England’s top

 

Scafell

west bank of Eskdale–

a summit brings a warning . . .

don’t leave by Broad Stand!

 

Helvellyn

a cross-walled shelter

and a summit landing strip

–well worth striding up

 

Skiddaw

Keswick’s sentinel–

a pyramid from the south–

plateau from the west

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Great End

gullied, shadowed face–

a stroll from Lakeland's crossroads–

Scafell's range curtailed

 

Bowfell

angled slab of rock–

no golf played upon these Links–

perfect summit views

 

Great Gable

a girdle enrobes

pyramidal pulchritude–

icon of the Park

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Pillar

a benign summit . . .

its Rock a climber’s fancy–

Liza’s high bulwark

 

Catstyecam

the end of an edge–

viewed from Helvellyn’s summit–

belies its fine shape

 

Raise

on a north-south ridge . . .

sometime winter sports resort

with a rocky top

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Fairfield

a horseshoe’s zenith

exits north, south, east and west–

but take a compass

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Blencathra (Saddleback)

multiple ascents

up ridge or edge to summit–

a cross close nearby

 

Skiddaw Little Man

the name says smaller–

from Keswick it seems taller . . .

a trick of the eye

 

Crinkle Crags

five summits in one–

take a long stop at Long Top–

'Lakeland’s best ridge mile'

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Grasmoor

of lesser renown–

one of Lakeland’s major peaks

might be too remote?

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Scoat Fell

one mountain or two?

and if two, how contrary–

the Great is lower!

 

St Sunday Crag

a thousand foot fall

awaits the careless viewer

of Helvellyn’s range

 

Crag Hill

can be climbed by Sail–

hub of the north-western fells–

‘Eel Crag’ to die-hards!

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High Street

lofty thoroughfare–

the Romans built their roads straight . . .

not a care for height

 

Red Pike (Wasdale)

one of two so named–

this one has a place to sit–

beware of the brink

 

Steeple

outpost of Scoat Fell–

yet perfecting Ennerdale–

its north ridge well won

 

High Stile

dividing two combes–

highest of a trinity–

shielding Buttermere

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