Route: Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Caudale Moor (Stony Cove Pike) - Threshthwaite Mouth - Thornthwaite Crag - Gray Crag - Hayeswater Gill - Hartsop
Distance: 6.83 miles
Ascent: 2,840ft
Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Cloud base approx. 1,500ft, above this we could not see more than 100m. Drizzle in the cloud at times, no wind.
Area
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Hartsop Dodd from Hartsop
Looking back down the wall to Hartsop
Patterdale, with Ullswater just visible in the distance from the north ridge of Hartsop Dodd
Brothers Water with the Hartsop Above How ridge behind from the north ridge of Hartsop Dodd
Climbing into the cloud
Hartsop Dodd summit cairn
Just follow the wall to Caudale Moor from Hartsaop Dodd
Down to Threshthwaite Mouth from Caudale Moor
Ascending Thornthwaite Crag from Threshthwaite Mouth
Thornthwaite Beacon
Gray Crag summit cairn and we are still in the cloud
Descending to Hartsop from Gray Crag, at last dropping out of the cloud
Looking back to Gray Crag, the cloud has started to lift a bit
Hayeswater Gill Filter House and the first sight of blue sky
Ruined building, Hayeswater Gill
Hayeswater Gill
The Pasture Beck skyline, still in cloud!
Looking back at Gray Crag, now out of the cloud
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