High Street from Mardale Head
Sat 29 Nov 2008
Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Roman Road - Straits of Riggindale - Rampsgill Head - Kidsty Pike - Kidsty Howes - Riggindale - Haweswater - Mardale Head
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 2,435ft
Time: 4 hours 45 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Snow on the tops, blue skies and sunshine, no wind
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Looking across Riggindale to Kidsty Pike
Haweswater
Speaking Crag sticking out into Haweswater
The way ahead
Nan Bield Pass and a glimpse of Small Water
The bump before Rough Crag
Rough Crag with High Street behind and Blea Water on the left
Blea Water from Rough Crag's summit
Caspel Gate Tarn and the Long Stile ridge onto High Street's summit
Looking back to Rough Crag and Caspel Gate Tarn
Long Stile
Looking over Blea Water to Harter Fell
Ascending Long Stile with Rough Crag now far below
Nearly at the top of Long Stile
Top of Long Stile
Nearing High Street's summit
High Street's summit
High Street's summit wall
Looking across to the Helvellyn range from High Street's summit
Zooming in on Helvellyn, Striding Edge and Catstycam
The high central fells
Bowfell, Scafell, Scafell Pike behind Esk Pike and Great End
Hayeswater from the Roman Road
The Straits of Riggindale and Twopenny Crag
Heading for the Straits of Riggindale
Looking back to High Street
Kidsty Pike
North along the High Street ridge from Rampsgill Head
Rest Dodd from Rampsgill Head
Looking back to Kidsty Pike from the descent to Kidsty Howes
Descending to Kidsty Howes
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