Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Mardale Ill Bell - Nan Bield Pass - Harter Fell - Gatescarth Pass - Mardale Head
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 4 hours 40 minutes
With: Dad
Notes:
Warm in the sunshine, great visbility on the fell tops above the haze
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Harter Fell reflecting in Haweswater
Looking across Riggindale to Kidsty Pike
Speaking Crag sticking out into Haweswater
The ridge to Rough Crag with High Street beyond
Approaching Rough Crag's summit
The ridge of Long Stile leading onto High Street seen from Rough Crag's summit
Long Stile leading onto High Street from Caspel Gate Tarn
Harter Fell sticking out above the haze and Blea Water below
Ascending Long Stile
Looking back along the Rough Crag ridge from near the top of Long Stile
High Street's summit
Westerly panorama from High Street
Saint Sunday Crag with the Helvellyn fells behind from High Street
Blencathra to the north from High Street
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, Scafell, Scafell Pike and Great End from High Street
Fairfield with Great Gable behind Dove Crag on the left from High Street
Looking over Caudale Moor to Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells and with Great Gable behind Dove Crag from High Street
Fairfield, Dollywaggon Pike, Nethermost Pike behind Saint Sunday Crag, Helvellyn and Catstycam from High Street
Heading for Mardale Ill Bell with Harter Fell beyond
Looking back up the path we had taken from High Street as we head for Mardale Ill Bell
High Street from Mardale Ill Bell's summit cairn
Small Water and Haweswater with Cross Fell and the Dun Fells sticking out above the haze on the far side of the Eden valley
Nan Bield Pass
Looking back to Mardale Ill Bell and High Street from our ascent of Harter Fell
Lingmell End, Froswick, Red Screes, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells and Great Gable from Harter Fell
Zooming in on Ill Bell's summit with the Old Man of Coniston behind right
Ill Bell and Froswick with the Coniston fells & Crinkle Crags beyond, the Scafells behind Red Screes and Great Gable on the far right from Harter Fell
Leaving Harter Fell's summit and headng for the lower cairns to the north east
High Street with Blea Water in the corrie below from Harter Fell
A hazy Haweswater from Harter Fell
Looking across Haweswater to The Rigg from Mardale Head
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