Sour Milk Gill (Borrowdale)

Sour Milk Gill has long been a favorite gill scramble of many club members. With a short walk-in from Seatoller and constant, varied approaches up the rock, this scramble has something for everyone. There's wet routes, dry routes, grade one, two or three technical routes. However all of them top-out at the base of Green Gable, making this route an excellent start to a longer day on the high fells.

Based upon "Scrambles in the Lake District - Volume 2" this route is graded 1, 2 or 3 ***

The route deserves all three grades of technicality as you can easily pick and choose parts you want to climb, whilst avoiding harder parts by retreating from the Gill bed to the path which follows to the side.

The hardest route of course being following the Gill bed continually, however unless the water level is very low, and you are an extremely confident scrambler (with climbing experience) there are one or two waterfalls which you will have to avoid scaling.

A number of people through the years have taken the straight-on "wet" route, climbing each of the smaller waterfalls whilst actually being directly under the cascading water, it's certainly impressive to watch!

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