Riggindale Round

Sat 20 Aug 2011

Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - Kidsty Pike - Kidsty Howes - Riggindale - Haweswater - Mardale Head

Distance: 7.25 miles

Ascent: 2,420ft

Time: 4 hours 20 minutes

With: Anne

Notes:

Sunny intervals, cool wind high up

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Towards The Rigg from Mardale Head

Harter Fell

Kidsty Pike across Riggindale

Swine Crag, the start of the Rough Crag ridge

Looking back down on Mardale Head

Haweswater

Along the ridge with High Street in the distance

Blea Water

Rough Crag

Kidsty Pike across Riggindale

Long Stile and Caspel Gate Tarn

Looking back down our ascent route

High Street's trig point, anyone got some white paint?

West to the Helvellyn range

The Straits of Riggindale

Looking back to High Street

Kidsty Pike and Riggindale

Looking back to Kidsty Pike's summit as we head down to Kidsty Howes

The route to Kidsty Howes

Kidsty Pike and Kidsty Howes from Riggindale Beck

Speaking Crag sticks out into Haweswater

Previous Walk: Helvellyn from Swirls (Sun 14 Aug 2011)

Next Walk: Wansfell Pike (Sat 1 Oct 2011)

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