⛰️ Green Gable

800 m · Wainwright — Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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800 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Green Gable at 801m (2,628ft) is the satellite summit of Great Gable to the north, connected by the dramatic Windy Gap. Wainwright noted its excellent views of the Great Gable crags from close range — the north face of Gable seen from Windy Gap is one of the most impressive close-up mountain views in Lakeland. The summit gives fine views north across Ennerdale and across to Haystacks. Most naturally combined with Great Gable as part of the Gable circuit from Seathwaite or Honister. The Windy Gap col below is a dramatic and memorable spot on the ridge.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

1.5 km WKirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)787 m · Western
1.6 km SESeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern
2.9 km ESEHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
3.0 km ESERed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Green Gable (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent.
Directions ↗
Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.
Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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