Base Brown pushes out into the head of Borrowdale above Seathwaite as a steep-sided dome ringed by crags, with a cairn on its grassy top. North of the summit, the Hanging Stone juts over the rim of the crags, and below it Sour Milk Gill tumbles in cascades out of Gillercomb. Higher neighbours limit the view, but you see the north face of the Scafells close up and look down Borrowdale to Derwentwater and Skiddaw.
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Welded rhyolitic tuffs of the Airy's Bridge Formation, with glacial till over the summit dome.
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Our Route
Also on this route: Great Gable, Green Gable, Brandreth, Grey Knotts
Safety: Routes are a guide only. Carry a map and compass and know how to use them, check the weather before you go, and turn back if in doubt. You use this route at your own risk.
