Hayeswater Horizon

Mon 8 Dec 2003

Route: Hartsop - Hayeswater - Gray Crag - Thornthwaite Crag - High Street - The Knott - Hayeswater - Hartsop

Distance: 7.75 miles

Ascent: 2,550ft

Time: 3 hours 15 minutes

With: On Own

Notes:

Blue sky, sunshine, -4c at start of walk (09:45)

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The wooded Hartsop Above How ridge with Fairfield and Saint Sunday Crag behind

The Knott above Hayeswater

Rest Dodd

Fairfield, Saint Sunday Crag and the Helvellyn range from Gray Crag's northern ridge

Saint Sunday Crag, Helvellyn and Catstycam

Looking down on Hartsop

Gray Crag summit cairn

360 Panorama from Gray Crag's summit

Thornthwaite Beacon

Looking over Troutbeck Tongue to Windermere from Thornthwaite Crag

The view west from Thornthwaite Crag

Westerly panorama from Thornthwaite Crag's summit

Hayeswater with the Gray Crag ridge on the left

Looking back to Thornthwaite Beacon from the ascent of High Street

The Ill Bell ridge (Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick)

High Street summit

360 Panorama from High Street's summit

Long Stile leading down to Rough Crag, Haweswater and The Pennines in the distance

Kidsty Pike from the Straits of Riggindale

High Raise and Rampsgill Head from The Knott's summit

Rest Dodd and The Nab from The Knott with Blencathra in the distance on the left

The view west from the descent off The Knott

Hayeswater

Gray Crag's west face catching the sun from the track back to Hartsop

Previous Walk: Blencathra via Hall's Fell Ridge (Fri 5 Dec 2003)

Next Walk: Black Crag and Tarn Hows (Thu 11 Dec 2003)

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