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| A wide parking area above Uzzicar Farm on the Braithwaite ~ Buttermere road is the starting point for this walk |
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| Opposite the parking area an old mine road rises towards Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking back to Skiddaw from the mine road |
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| Rowling End on Causey Pike from the mine road as it approaches Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking across to Walla Crag backed by Clough Head and Great Dodd |
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| Catbells across the slopes of Rowling End |
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| Skiddaw and Blencathra from the mine road above Stonycroft |
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| The summit of Causey Pike comes into view as the mine road begins to turn to follow the course of Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking back towards Blencathra |
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| Carry on straight ahead where the road forks, the left branch only leads to site of old Stonycroft Lead Mine's smelter mill |
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| The mine road continues on for two miles to the site of an old cobalt mine which is situated on the slopes of Scar Crags beneath Sail Pass |
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| Looking back along the lower reaches of Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking up the summit of Causey Pike from the mine road |
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| Looking up to Barrow from the old mine road |
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| Looking back to the Helvellyn range above the summits of Bleaberry Fell and High Seat |
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| Causey Pike and the connecting ridge to Scar Crags |
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| Looking back towards Stile End and Barrow |
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| Looking back along Stonycroft Gill |
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| Passing a marker cairn indicating the start of a path which traverses the slopes below Stile End to reach Barrow Door |
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| Skiddaw appears over the depression of Low Moss |
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| Scar Crags from the mine road |
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| Blencathra appears between Stile End and Barrow |
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| Looking across to Great Mell Fell, Clough Head, Watson's Dodd and Stybarrow Dodd on the distant horizon |
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| A little higher on the mine road another path leads over Low Moss to Stile End |
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| Sail and Eel Crag from the mine road |
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| Looking across to the summit of Causey Pike |
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| Looking back to Barrow from the mine road |
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| Passing the ruined sheepfold which AW noted on his diagram of this ascent - almost time to leave the mine road |
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| Outerside from the mine road |
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| A short distance along the mine road from the sheepfold a path on the left leads up to the col between Causey Pike and Scar Crags .......... |
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| .......... and on the right an indistinct path turns off towards the scattered remains of an old wall on the slopes of Outerside |
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| Sail and Eel Crag from the old wall |
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| Continue in the same direction on a clearer path through the heather |
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| The path makes a rising traverse to join the main path on the south-west ridge which comes up from High Moss |
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| Joining the main path on the south-west ridge |
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| Looking back along the traverse path |
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| The path on the south-west ridge |
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| Looking down on High Moss. The path leading across the moss from the mine road can be seen . . . this wet crossing has been avoided by using the traverse path |
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| Eel Crag, Coledale Hause, Sand Hill and Hobcarton Head from the south-west ridge |
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| Higher on the south-west ridge |
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| Looking over to Causey Pike from the south-west ridge |
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| Bassenthwaite Lake and Skiddaw from the south-west ridge |
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| Approaching the summit of Outerside |
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| Looking back along the path on the south-west ridge |
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| The summit of Outerside |
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| The Helvellyn range from the summit of Outerside |
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| Scar Crags from the summit of Outerside |
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| Sail and Eel Crag from the summit of Outerside |
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| Coledale Hause, Sand Hill, Hobcarton Head and Grisedale Pike from the summit of Outerside |
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| Lord's Seat over Sleet How from the summit of Outerside |
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| Skiddaw from the summit of Outerside |
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| Blencathra from the summit of Outerside |
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| Derwent Water from the summit of Outerside |
