Walk Information

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Walk route: Grange, Borrowdale - Cockley How - Nitting Haws - High Spy - Rigghead Quarries - Broadslack Gill - River Derwent - Grange, Borrowdale

Distance: 5.25 miles

Ascent: 2,050ft

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Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

With: on own

Conditions: High cloud and very hazy

Photos

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Nitting Haws on the left and Blea Crag on the rightCockley How with Blea Crag behindLooking up High White Rake from Cockley HowMy route headed left under the cragsDerwent Water from the sheepfold below High White RakeThe old drove road, my route of ascentLooking back down my route of ascentSkiddaw and Derwent Water from Nitting HawsLooking down on Grange from Nitting HawsMinum Crag on the skyline (centre)Looking back down to Nitting HawsDerwent Water from the ascent, there is a path all the wayLooking up to Minum CragHindscarthCausey Pike from High Spy's summitLooking north towards the top of Blea Crag from High Spy's summitDale HeadHeading across to the top of Rigghead QuarriesWilson's BieldRigghead QuarriesRigghead QuarriesRigghead QuarriesCastle CragRiver Derwent

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