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800 mWainwright — Western Fells+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km Fewer traps in Clag

Green Gable at 800m (2,624ft) is the satellite summit of Great Gable to the north, connected by the dramatic Windy Gap.

Summit conditions on Green Gable

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 4°C, gusts to 64 mph, 6.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

66 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 52 mph times our exposure factor of 1.27. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 64 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

6.7 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like −1 °C, no ice or snow forecast; cloud: a clear-top reading of 33 out of 100, over our in-cloud line of 20. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Routes up Green Gable

Choose the way up before the car park: these two routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Compared	Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine	Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown
Starts from	Honister Slate Mine	Seatoller, south-east field car park
Distance and climb	9.61 km, 721 m of climb	15.85 km, 960 m of climb
Time, fast to steady	~3–4¼ h	~4¾–6½ h
Scrambling	Hands for a few steps: the north-west ridge from Beck Head, up to Great Gable's top (about km 5.3). Some easy hands-on ground on the north-west ridge above Beck Head; the bigger danger on Gable is navigational.	Hands for a few steps: the lower rock steps of the descent (km 10.6–15.8).
Exposure	Moderate	Hard
Navigation	Severe	Hard
Steepest stretch	Climb of about 45% at 5.0 km (Severe)	Climb of about 42% at 4.7 km (Severe)
After the summit	Over Brandreth and Grey Knotts	Over Base Brown
Walked or planned	Planned: drawn, not yet walked	Planned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the start	Honister (NT, paid)	Seatoller, south-east field car park (paid)
Bus to the start	77 at the start. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day.	78, 820 m walk from Seatoller, at National Trust car park. The 77 runs until 1 November 2026, the last day of its season.

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is Green Gable hard to climb?

Easier than its famous neighbour, and a fine summit in its own right — but the two are joined by Windy Gap, and that col is the part to think about. It is steep, rocky and, as the name promises, ferociously windy; the gully of Aaron Slack dropping from it to Styhead is rough, loose and eroded.

From Honister our round is 9.6 km with 721 m of ascent: out along Moses Trod and up Great Gable first, then down to Windy Gap, over Green Gable and back over Brandreth and Grey Knotts. We rate it Severe overall for its steepness and grade it severe for navigation. From Seathwaite with Base Brown it is 15.9 km and 960 m. Gable Crag belongs to Great Gable, across Windy Gap; the round passes under it on Moses Trod and along its top between Great Gable and the gap — keep back in cloud.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 800 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast

Tue 27 Oct

10° / 4°

64 mph

6.7 mm (100%)

Wed 28 Oct

8° / 5°

44 mph

12.6 mm (100%)

Thu 29 Oct

8° / 6°

27 mph

1.0 mm (26%)

Fri 30 Oct

7° / 5°

27 mph

0.1 mm (31%)

Sat 31 Oct

9° / 0°

9 mph

0.0 mm (25%)

Sun 1 Nov

7° / -1°

7 mph

0.0 mm (12%)

Mon 2 Nov

6° / 0°

17 mph

0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Green Gable

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

Honister (NT, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine (straight line)

Walking base for Great Gable, Green Gable, Brandreth and Grey Knotts — the 'Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine' route starts 61 m away. Also serves 'Haystacks'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked August 2026). The machine takes cards, and National Trust members park free on production of their membership card (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 August 2026).

Directions Something changed here?

Seatoller, south-east field car park (paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown (straight line)

A paid field by the River Derwent, 0.5 km south-east of Seatoller; operator not identified. The 'Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown' route starts 78 m away. Paid parking (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (farm field, paid) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)

The farm’s own field, signed off the lane — £5 all day, £10 overnight, no booking needed (the farm’s own page, read 21 September 2026; its notice is still headed 2025). A different place from the free verge on the same lane, and the reason not to race for a verge space. The farm opened it to ease the parking problems in the busy period.

Directions Something changed here?

4 more places to park near Green Gable

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)

Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. It fills early; the farm’s own field just down the lane takes the pressure off, and the lane needs to stay clear for residents, farm traffic and emergency vehicles.

Typically full before 09:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) (1.8 km); Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.0 km); Rosthwaite (NT, paid) (3.8 km)

Public toilets (~188 m straight line) — Free

Thornythwaite Fell (layby) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)

Walking base for Allen Crags, High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags), Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara) and Looking Steads (Glaramara) — the 'Allan Crags & Glaramara' route starts 135 m away. Also serves 'Scafell Pike via the Corridor Route'. Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Thornythwaite Fell, north-west (layby) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)

Walking base for Allen Crags, High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags), Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara) and Looking Steads (Glaramara) — the 'Allan Crags & Glaramara' route starts 255 m away. Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)

Paid parking at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent. This is the slate mine's own car park, the WESTERN one; the National Trust car park 170 m east is a separate one. Fees: Day parking GBP 5 per day for visitors; free for all Honister activity guests (honister.com/your-visit/). Overnight parking GBP 15 a night in the large bottom car park, open to campervans, motorhomes and vans, no tent camping, no facilities, no electric hook-ups; book online or pay by QR code on arrival and display confirmation on the dashboard (honister.com/your-visit/overnight-parking) (operator, checked August 2026). You pay by card, inside the building, not at a machine in the car park. The posted opening is 9am but it is often later; the mine is content for you to arrive before it and pay on the way out, and the car park is covered by cameras (Lee McCoy, local observation, recorded 12 August 2026). Pay and display (LDNPA, checked August 2026).

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.4 km, 259 m up)

Public toilets (~136 m straight line) — Free Sky Hi Cafe

Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 77 stops at Honister Youth Hostel (near), a 140 m walk from the start of Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness and navigation). Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day. It returns on 22 March 2027. Confirmed with the operator: its last day on 29 August 2026, its return on 16 October 2026. The last bus is 18:33 towards Keswick (77), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026; that timetable runs to 1 November 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”

Keswick – Portinscale – Hawes 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 (Summer 2026 timetable: 23 March to 1 November 2026). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Green Gable

Hazard & Incident Information for Green Gable

Checked by Lee McCoy, 14 June 2026. Draws on published material from Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

Great Gable's quieter twin, separated from it by the steep, rocky col of Windy Gap. The descent toward Styhead by Aaron Slack is a rough, loose, eroded gully. The ground is rocky and scree-strewn, exposed and high, with the crag edge and the steep col the main hazards. Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

Windy Gap & Aaron Slack: The col between Green and Great Gable (Windy Gap) is steep, rocky and — as the name says — ferociously windy, and the gully of Aaron Slack dropping to Styhead is rough, loose and eroded. Take both carefully, especially descending Aaron Slack on its loose scree, and beware being blown about at the gap.
Gable Crag (on the way to Great Gable): Gable Crag belongs to Great Gable, across Windy Gap; the round passes under it on Moses Trod and along its top between Great Gable and the gap — keep back in cloud.
Rocky, scree-strewn high ground & navigation: The summit and ridges are rough and rocky with scree, on high exposed ground where weather changes fast. Navigate carefully by compass in cloud (the cluster of paths around Windy Gap, Aaron Slack and the Gable traverse is easy to confuse).

Who should attempt this fell: Green Gable is a fine high top, but treat Windy Gap and Aaron Slack with respect — the gully is loose and the col is genuinely windy — and keep back from the Gable Crag edge. Navigate carefully among the paths in cloud, carry full kit for fast-changing weather, and treat the rocky ground as full winter terrain when there is snow or ice.

What to watch for: Slips on the loose, eroded scree of Aaron Slack · Being blown off balance at Windy Gap · Walkers straying toward the Gable Crag edge in poor visibility · Navigation errors among the rocky paths in cloud; fast-changing high-fell weather

Local Mountain Rescue: Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab)

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information (opens in new tab)

Navigating in cloud

Fewer traps in cloud

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of steep ground within half a kilometre of the summit. This top is in the lowest of the index’s four bands, and a low band never means “safe”: carry map and compass and know how to use them.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Green Gable compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Green Gable

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

1.5 km WKirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)787 m · Western

1.6 km SESeathwaite Fell (Great Slack)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

Routes over Green Gable

Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine

Summits: Great GableGreen GableBrandreth Grey Knotts

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Warnings: The summit plateau in cloud. Gable’s top is a broad sea of boulders with crags on several sides and no handrails. Take a bearing off the summit and follow it precisely — this is where the callouts start. Do not drift towards the Napes. The southern face is a climbers’ playground of crags and gullies, not a walkers’ descent. The Windy Gap descent is loose and steep. Take it slowly, especially in the wet. The route rounds the top of Gable Crag, with steep ground falling away on the Ennerdale/north side. Keep back from the edge, particularly in cloud or wind.

Route guide: Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine →

Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown

Summits: Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)Seathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)Green GableBase Brown

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Warnings: Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit): Getting safely down is the hardest part — the path is faint to non-existent, and the rocky knolls and outcrops hide the line (only a couple of shallow gullies give a way through). In cloud it is very easy to get disorientated or to drift onto steeper ground. Navigate carefully by compass and pick your descent line with care.

From the hazard notes for Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit), each with its sources.

Route guide: Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Green Gable

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine route:

Honister Youth Hostel / Slate Quarry (E) (88 m from the start, straight line) bus stop (91 m from the start, straight line) Honister Pass YHA (39 m from the start, straight line)

On the Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown route:

toilets (39 m off the line)

About Green Gable

Green Gable, a Lake District fell — Photo: James@hopgrove at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Classifications & hill data

Is Green Gable a Wainwright?

Green Gable is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

800 m

Height

2,624 ft

In feet

NY 2146 1071

Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from Green Gable

The 360° skyline from Green Gable

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

drag to pan · arrow keys

The skyline as a list, by direction

North: Crag Hill (10 km), Grasmoor (10 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (18 km), Skiddaw Little Man (18 km), Skiddaw South Top (18 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (19 km), Skiddaw (19 km)
North-east: White Side (14 km), Raise (14 km), Stybarrow Dodd (15 km), Green Side (16 km), Great Dodd (16 km), Knowe Crags (19 km), Gategill Fell Top (20 km), Blencathra (20 km)
East: Helvellyn Lower Man (13 km), High Crag (13 km), Nethermost Pike (13 km), Dollywaggon Pike (13 km), Helvellyn (14 km), Fairfield (14 km), Cofa Pike (14 km), Hart Crag (15 km), Dove Crag (16 km), High Street (23 km), High Raise (24 km)
South-east: Great End (3 km), Esk Pike (4 km), Bowfell (5 km), Crinkle Crags (7 km)
South: Broad Crag (3 km), Scafell Pike (4 km), Scafell (4 km)
West: Kirk Fell (2 km), Pillar (5 km), Red Pike (5 km), Black Crag (5 km), Scoat Fell (6 km)
North-west: High Stile (6 km), High Stile (6 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Snaefell (85 km, Isle of Man), Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (107 km, Scotland), Cairnsmore of Fleet (91 km, Scotland), Corserine (105 km, Scotland), South Barrule (102 km, Isle of Man), White Coomb (104 km, Scotland), Ettrick Pen (97 km, Scotland), Slieve Binnian (184 km, Ireland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Green Gable

Green Gable sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (on 1 May) first light is only 2 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:33 BST ±5.0 min	04:38	-5 min
Equinox	06:16 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	—
Midwinter	08:27 GMT ±5.0 min	08:33	-6 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.36°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Green Gable

Green Gable loses the sun early. Its earliest evening of the modelled year falls on 1 November, when last light is 92 minutes before almanac sunset — 15:06 against 16:38. The sun goes down to the south-west from here (226.4°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 10.57°.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:57 BST ±5.0 min	21:53	+4 min
Equinox	18:29 GMT ±5.0 min	18:27	+2 min
Midwinter	14:33 GMT ±5.0 min	15:50	-77 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Green Gable

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

96Wainwrights in view+11 marginal

184 kmFurthest sightlineSlieve Binnian · possible under favourable refraction

1Sea in viewIrish Sea

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Scotland, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland.

Far horizons

Slieve Binnian Northern IrelandW · 184 km clear
Snaefell Isle of ManWSW · 85 km clear
Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 64 km clear
Whernside Yorkshire DalesESE · 60 km clear
Criffel ScotlandNNW · 58 km clear
Irish Sea open waterWNW · 33 km in view

All 96 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Great Gable, Brandreth, Base Brown, Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit), Grey Knotts, Kirk Fell, Great End, Allen Crags, Glaramara, Haystacks (Buttermere), Scafell Pike, Fleetwith Pike, Esk Pike, Scafell, Pillar, Dale Head, High Crag (Buttermere), Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot, Red Pike (Wasdale), Bowfell, Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell), Steeple, Hindscarth, High Spy, Sergeant's Crag, High Stile, Eagle Crag, Robinson, Castle Crag, High Raise (High White Stones), Pike of Stickle, Great Crag (Stonethwaite), Thunacar Knott, Loft Crag, Sergeant Man, Harrison Stickle, Grange Fell (Brund Fell), Ullscarf, Seatallan, Maiden Moor, Starling Dodd, Rannerdale Knotts, Whiteless Pike, Ard Crags, Wandope, High Tove, Armboth Fell (Armboth Fell South Top), Sail, Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Scar Crags, High Seat, Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top), Grasmoor, Great Borne, Lingmoor Fell (Brown How), Bleaberry Fell, Grisedale Pike, Walla Crag, Nethermost Pike, Dollywaggon Pike, Helvellyn, White Side, Great Rigg, Low Fell, Fairfield, Raise, Watson's Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd, Hart Crag, Latrigg, Black Fell, Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell, Dove Crag, Great Dodd, High Pike (Scandale), Clough Head, Carl Side, Skiddaw Little Man, Lonscale Fell, Long Side, Red Screes, Ullock Pike, Skiddaw, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Thornthwaite Crag, Great Calva, Rest Dodd, Ill Bell, Sour Howes, High Street, Yoke, Sallows, High Raise (High Street), Knott, Binsey, Carrock Fell

How the view from Green Gable compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Green Gable. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

Seatoller House (opens in new tab) guest houseabout 2.0 km

Also nearby, but not independent

YHA Borrowdale (opens in new tab) hostelabout 3.1 km

We have not stayed at any of them. We take no bookings or affiliate fees. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

Frequently asked questions about Green Gable

Is Green Gable hard to climb? Answered above.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Green Gable

Summit conditions on Green Gable

Wind on the top

Rain, and the becks

Routes up Green Gable

Is Green Gable hard to climb?

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Parking & buses for Green Gable

Parking

Buses

Hazards on Green Gable

Hazard & Incident Information for Green Gable

Navigating in cloud

If you need Mountain Rescue

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Birketts within 3 km of Green Gable

Routes over Green Gable

On the hill: terrain and water on Green Gable

Water & shelter on the way up

About Green Gable

Classifications & hill data

Is Green Gable a Wainwright?

Selected lists

The view from Green Gable

The 360° skyline from Green Gable

Sunrise and sunset on Green Gable

Last light — when the sun leaves Green Gable

What you can see from Green Gable

Places to stay near this fell

Frequently asked questions about Green Gable

Other fells near Green Gable