High Street from Mardale Head
Sun 17 Dec 2006
Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Mardale Ill Bell - Nan Bield Pass - Harter Fell - Gatescarth Pass - Mardale Head
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 4 hours 40 minutes
With: David Hall and Anne
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine, snow on the tops, brilliant!
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Looking across Riggindale to Kidsty Pike and Kidsty Howes
Haweswater from the ascent of Rough Crag
Rough Crag with High Street beyond
Long Stile leading onto High Street from Caspel Gate Tarn
Ascending Long Stile with Rough Crag and Caspel Gate Tarn now way below
The final slope up onto High Street
Ascending Long Stile
A walker approaching the trig point at High Street's summit
Helvellyn from High Street's summit
Snowdrift, High Street
Looking across to Thornthwaite Beacon
Westerly panorama from south of High Street's summit
Mardale Ill Bell with Harter Fell behind
Approaching Mardale Ill Bell's summit
360 Panorama from Mardale Ill Bell's summit
Looking back to Mardale Ill Bell and High Street from Harter Fell
Harter Fell's summit cairn
Westerly panorama from Harter Fell's summit
Looking south from Harter Fell's summit with the sun reflecting off Windermere and Morecambe Bay
Looking back to Harter Fell's summit as the cloud builds to the south west
Haweswater from Harter Fell
On the path to Gatescarth Pass with Tarn Crag ahead and the Howgills in the distance
Descending to Mardale Head from Gatescarth Pass
Previous Walk: Lingmoor Fell and Pike o'Blisco (Sat 16 Dec 2006)
Next Walk: Hard Knott, Harter Fell and Green Crag (Tue 19 Dec 2006)