Route: Hartsop - Brock Crags - Satura Crag - Yewgrove Gill - The Nab - Rest Dodd - Hayeswater - Filter House - Hartsop
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,550ft
Time: 4 hours 5 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Overcast, a cold wind at times
Area
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Pasture Bottom leading up to Threshthwaite Mouth
Brothers Water and Hartsop Above How from our ascent of Brock Crags
Gray Crag with Hayeswater on the left
Looking across to Brock Crags summit with St Sunday Crag, Helvellyn and Catstycam in the distance
Brock Crags summit, easier to reach when the ground is frozen
Brothers Water and Hartsop Above How with Little Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield on the skyline
A frozen Angle Tarn
Looking towards Rest Dodd from Satura Crag
The Nab
Icicles, Yewgrove Gill
Rather than take the normal route across to The Nab we descended the ridge behind David, crossed Yewgrove Gill and headed up round the frozen hags
Rampsgill Head and Rest Dodd from The Nab's summit
David sets off for Rest Dodd
Looking back to The Nab, the peat hags are well frozen
Looking back to The Nab from the steep ascent of Rest Dodd
Rampsgill Head from Rest Dodd
High Raise and Rampsgill Head from Rest Dodd's summit cairn
Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag with Hayeswater below
Hart Crag, Fairfield, Great Gable in the distance, St Sunday Crag, Helvellyn and Catstycam
Just follow the wall if you are heading for The Knott from Rest Dodd
A frozen Hayeswater
Even the biggest rocks failed to break through the ice
Hayeswater Gill
Rather than follow the main track back to Hartsop we look the minor path to the filter house
Looking back up the Filter House track by Hayeswater Gill with The Knott in the distance
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