Riggindale Round
Sat 26 Sep 2015
Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - Kidsty Pike - Kidsty Howes - Riggindale - Haweswater - Mardale Head
Distance: 7.25 miles
Ascent: 2,420ft
Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Blanket of high cloud. No wind making for warm walking
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Looking over the island of Wood Howe to Riggindale
New sign. About time too, the old one had a spelling mistake!
Heading for The Rigg
Low water levels reveal the old walls
Riggindale
Starting our ascent of Rough Crag
Haweswater
Harter Fell
Last of the heather
Blea Water
Rough Crag summit, looking towards High Street
Blea Water with Harter Fell behind
Looking back down Long Stile to Rough Crag and Caspel Gate Tarn
High Street's summit trig
Sun on Gray Crag and Hayeswater far below
On the Roman Road heading for the Straits of Riggindale
Brock Crags in sunshine now
Kidsty Pike
Flypast
Kidsty Pike summit
Heading down...
...to Kidsty Howes
Speaking Crag sticking out into Haweswater
Castle Crag in the sun on the far side of Haweswater, taken on the drive home
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