Route: Burnbanks - Pinnacle Howe - Four Stones Hill - standing stones - Bampton Fell - Low Kop - High Kop - Wether Hill - Red Crag - Redcrag Tarn - Raven Howe - High Raise - Low Raise - Long Grain - Measand End - Measand Beck - Haweswater - Burnbanks
Distance: 11.75 miles
Ascent: 2,550ft
Time: 5 hours 20 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Sunny intervals, a bit of drizzle but mostly dry. Some icy snow on High Raise.
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Burnbanks
Bampton Fell from the summit of Pinnacle Howe
Looking back to the sunlit summit of Pinnacle Howe from Little Birkhouse Hill
Measand End from Four Stones Hill
Haweswater and Measand End from the standing stones below Four Stones Hill
Four Stones Hill from our climb up Bampton Fell
The view north from the summit of Bampton Fell (not named on the OS map)
Low Kop, our next objective, from Bampton Fell
The old boundary stone near the summit of Low Kop
Red Crag at the head of the valley with a snow covered High Raise just visible on the left from Low Kop
Looking back to Low Kop as we ascend to High Kop
Looking over Steel Knotts and Hallin Fell to Great and Little Mell Fells from the Roman Road near Keasgill Head
Looking north to Loadpot Hill from Wether Hill's summit cairn
High Raise from the cairn on Red Crag
Looking across to Rest Dodd from Raven Howe
The Nab, Beda Head and Martindale
Looking back north along the line of the Roman Road as we ascend High Raise, Steel Knotts catches some sun on the left
Kidsty Pike, High Street and Rampsgill Head from High Raise's summit
Looking towards Low Raise from High Raise
The large cairn / tumulus on Low Raise
A 'peat mushroom' on Long Grain
Bampton Fell from Measand End
The foot of Haweswater from Measand End
Blue sky over the Eden Valley as we descend to Haweswater's shore
A glimpse of Haweswater's dam
Previous Walk: Eel Tarn, Eskdale (Sun 6 Jan 2008)
Next Walk: 101 (Thu 17 Jan 2008)