High Street from Hartsop (Sun 16 Apr 2006)

Walk Information

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Walk route: Hartsop - Gray Crag - Thornthwaite Crag - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - Rampsgill Head - Knott, The (High Street) - Rest Dodd - Nab, The - Satura Crag - Brock Crags - Hartsop

Distance: 10.75 miles

Ascent: 3,750ft

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Time: 5 hours 55 minutes

With: David & Jennifer Hall

Conditions: Sunshine and scattered/broken cloud, strong wind, one short shower as we headed for Rest Dodd from The Knott

Photos

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An old barn just outside the village of Hartsop with Hartsop Dodd behindLooking across to Brock Crags with the filter house bottom right from the slopes of Gray CragThe view north west from Gray CragAscending Gray CragLooking over Hartsop Dodd to Dove Crag, Hart Crag and FairfieldWesterly panorama from Gray Crag's summitLooking through Threshthwaite Mouth to WindermereNortherly panorama from the Gray Crag - Thornthwaite Crag ridgeHigh Street from Thornthwaite BeaconThe Ill Bell ridge and Windermere from Thornthwaite BeaconHayswater with Gray Crag on the left, Rest Dodd behind and The Knott / The Straits of Riggindale on the rightThe Ill Bell ridge (left) and Thornthwaite Beacon (right) from the wall over High Street's summitCrinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells and Great End from High Street's summitLong Stile leading to Rough Crag, Haweswater and the North Pennines in the distance from High StreetLooking back to the Straits of Riggindale and High StreetKidsty Pike360 Panorama from Rampsgill Head summitThe Knott with the eastern fells behindThe weather closing in to the north west of usRest Dodd and The Nab from The KnottThe Nab from Rest DoddRest Dodd from The Nab's summitWesterly panorama from the slopes of Rest DoddBannerdaleAngle Tarn from Brock CragsGray Crag our first fell of the day with Hayswater and High Street on the leftThe remains of the 19th century Myers' Head Lead Mine

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