Route: Mardale Head - Small Water - east ridge - Mardale Ill Bell - Nan Bield Pass - Small Water - Mardale Head
Distance: 4.00 miles
Ascent: 1,700ft
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Sunny with scattered cloud
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Mardale Head with Mardale Ill Bell's east ridge right of centre, taken on the drive up Haweswater

Haweswater, low for June, from Mardale Head

Mardale Ill Bell's east ridge from the path to Small Water

Small Water Beck, lots of water after all the rain in the last couple of days

Looking back down on Mardale Head from beside Small Water Beck

The stepping stones across the outflow of Small Water

Small Water

Mardale Ill Bell's east ridge from Small Water with Piot Crag on the skyline

The three stone shelters at Small Water

Small Water and Nan Bield Pass from Mardale Ill Bell's east ridge

Blue skies over the Vale of Eden with the North Pennines in the distance

Small Water from next to the old quarry above Piot Crag

Mardale Ill Bell's summit cairn

Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick from Mardale Ill Bell's summit

Harter Fell

Yoke and Ill Bell above Kentmere Reservoir

Nan Bield Pass

Mardale Ill Bell's east ridge

Small Water and Haweswater

Small Water

Two of the three stone shelters at Small Water

Small Water Beck

Waterfall, Small Water Beck

Haweswater from next to Small Water Beck

Descending to Mardale Head
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