Loadpot Hill from Roehead
Thu 28 Mar 2013
Route: Roehead - The Cockpit, Moor Divock - High Street Roman Road - Loadpot Hill - Lowther House - High Street Roman Road - The Cockpit - Roehead
Distance: 9.00 miles
Ascent: 1,500ft
Time: 4 hours 15 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Hard work breaking trail in the snow, cold in the wind especially higher up, overcast to start but brightening
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Looking south towards Arthur's Pike from above Roehead
Up in the snow now. Snowy North Pennines in the distance
Looking south towards Loadpot Hill
Bonscale Pike left, Arthur's Pike right with the top of Swarthbeck Gill separating them
Heading up Loadpot Hill
The view west as we ascend
Looking across to Glencoyne
Loadpot Hill summit
Looking towards the Fairfield and Helvellyn fells from Loadpot Hill
Looking back to the trig point
All that remains of Lowther House
Towards Rest Dodd and The Nab
Not as clear on Helvellyn
A not so straight bit of Roman Road, with Ullswater far below
Hard going in the soft snow
Over Hallin Fell to Skiddaw and Blencathra
Drift
Heading down
North Pennines across the Eden Valley
Heughscar Hill ahead
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