Easdale Gill is an obvious scramble route, which rises from the stream bed quite suddenly by a large steep wall, which would be best, left alone in high water.

The rest of the route is quite straight forward with easy angled rock and water falls which takes you on a pleasant scramble up to the bottom of Belles Knott, where you can then traverse down and left around the base of Belles Knott to enjoy a grade two scramble to it's summit.

The approach to Easdale Gill is quite straight forward. From the car park, near the co-op head back to the main street and cross over. After a few minutes walk you will come to Easdale Road on your right. Follow the road up until you come to a foot bridge that crosses the stream,. Cross the bridge and follow the path until you see Sourmilk Gill straight ahead. From here you can take the path that winds it's self up and close to Sourmilk Gill and up to Easdale Tarn.

From the tarn follow the path round to the left until you come inline with Easdale Gill and Belles Knott. Leave the path here and drop down into the stream. For the first 50 yards the scrambling is easy over the rocky stream bed until you reach the wall that protects the rest of the scramble.

In low water you are able to scramble directly up the wall, but if the water level is high then perhaps this is best avoided and takes the left hand side of the wall on the broken rock and turf

From here continue up the Gill passing over several small falls and interesting features until you come directly beneath Belles Knott.

This is generally classed as the end of the scramble of Easdale Gill, but you can continue onwards along the flat and narrowing stream until you come to a path that crosses the stream. from here you can now see the gill continues and rises steeply into the hill side, you can now follow the gill to it's end

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