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20th Mar 2022  08:44  by fitzydan

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A cold wind on the top but easily located

The trigpoint
The trigpoint and the summit

25th Apr 2021  10:20  by Earby Rambler

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Visited whilst on bonus day out with eldest daughter and son in law, they were climbing High Spy. AMAZING summit with outstanding views, another cracking morning.

Approach
Site
Bolt
Panoramic
Panoramic

12th Oct 2019  14:00  by Wayne Mac

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Bolt looking a bit weatherworn but generally in good condition and hard to miss just a couple of yards from the cairn. Found on a Combe Head Horseshoe walk from near Seatoller

Bolt Location
Bolt Closer View
Bolt Up close

13th Aug 2018  22:22  by mcbiydw2

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19th May 2018  11:10  by rupertal

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Warm spring day. Lovely location

21st Feb 2018  10:29  by painterman61

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Revisit on a sunny warm late winter day steep ascent from Rosthwaite soaking my baselayer through and had to take it off at the summit cairn.Large OS bolt in good shape considering where it is.Walked on the Combe Head horseshoe climbing the remaining Birkett/Nuttall tops i had missed before.A great day out and ten years almost to the day since me and my friend started doing all the Wainwright tops many times the strange thing about it was on that very first day all those years ago the weather conditions were almost exactly the same no wind and sunny all day!

Its dare ©painterman61
Location looking to Honister Crag ©painterman61
detail ©painterman61
!0 years on the wainwright tops. ©painterman61

18th May 2017  13:37  by peebs

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Approach from Langstrath via Tansey Gill

©peebs

7th Mar 2017  09:58  by jonglew

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Bolt measured at 2 1/8" diameter. Easy spot exposed on rock, paced out at 2m NNE of summit cairn. It is a bit battered, but is stable and would be perfectly functional. On a round of Wainwright and Nuttall bagging.

Bolt - Location wrt cairn TP8050©jonglew
Bolt TP8050©jonglew
Detail TP8050©jonglew

16th Jun 2015  13:20  by Father Ted

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I don't normally give bolts a very high score but this one is in a great place. Found on trhe last peak for me having walked the Seathwaite/Glaramara horseshoe. I walked back to the tarn and down from there but its a steep and not a nice way to decend in my opinion.

4th Sep 2014  13:47  by Hartryggers

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Parked on the grass verge in the lane heading to Thorneythwaite Farm parking NOW £3 in an honesty box… all I had in loose change was 60p!!! > Tarn at Leaves > Great Hollow > Dovenest Top [Dovenest Crag][Stonethwaite Fell] > Rosthwaite Fell [Rosthwaite Cam] > Tarn at Leaves > ROSTHWAITE FELL - BESSYBOOT rocky summit topped with a cairn, OS bolt 4m NNE > back to the car. Previous visit 28/09/2008

Summit cairn and GPS sitting on the Bolt

18th Aug 2013  08:59  by peregrinus

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Battered 2" bolt in small outcrop 3m NNE of summit cairn

Bolt on outcrop in foreground

28th Feb 2013  15:29  by Morecambe Monkey

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Revisit on walk to bag previously bypassed Hewitt/Birkett summit of Stonethwaite Fell(Dovenest Crag). Climbed to summit of Rosthwaite Fell(Bessyboot) as the last one of the day,went for a scout around not expecting to find the bolt & there it was in plain view on a rock about 4 feet NNE of the summit cairn,which was a nice bonus!

Bolt on rock.
Bolt on rock & summit cairn
Me photographing the bolt.

8th Dec 2012  15:30  by stignest

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on the eve of my wainwright completion. this my 3rd last top. up the Stanger Gill route which was steep and good fun.

20th Oct 2012  09:41  by PeteBoggs

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I guess it could be under the cairn but not in plain sight - always called this spot Rosthwaite Fell

7th Aug 2010  11:18  by painterman61

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This was a strange day whilst walking the Glaramara round i got on route with the borrowdale annual fell race,got chatting to the fell racing legend Billy bland who was marshaling the first gate.Was last man to summit bessyboot made mountain rescue laugh when they checked notes to see if i was in the race, top was full of glum characters who never cracked a smile surreal.Did not look for bolt!

Me in the middle with raised poles. ©painterman61
cairn ©painterman61
Misty race ©painterman61
Tail enders knackered already ©painterman61

28th Sep 2008  12:00  by chrisbombington

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A bit late logging this one (six years), was doing the Wainwright's back in 2008, must admit I did not actually look at the bolt but luckily captured it in this summit shot, Walking the ridge from Alan Crags too this little beauty is in my humble opinion one of the best walks in the district,

Bessyboot summit Cairn and Bolt