Route: Swindale - Truss Gap - Swindale Head - Hare Shaw - Selside Pike - High Howes - Branstree Tarn - Branstree - Tarn Crag - Grey Crag - Harrop Pike - Ulthwaite Rigg - High Wether Howe - Fewling Stones - Truss Gap - Swindale
Distance: 13.25 miles
Ascent: 2,950ft
Time: 6 hours
With: David Hall
Notes:
Overcast with sunny intervals, a cool strong wind at times
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The head of Swindale
Looking towards High Street (centre with top in cloud) from Hare Shaw's summit
Leaving Hare Shaw's summit for Selside Pike
High Street with Harter Fell on the far left and Kidsty Pike on the far right
Looking down into Swindale from our ascent of Selside Pike with the North Pennines in the distance
The survey post on Branstree and a glimpse of Haweswater
Looking back to Selside Pike from the larger of the two cairns on Artle Crag
Harter Fell from Branstree's summit
Goat Scar and upper Longsleddale from Selside Brow
The remote Mosedale Cottage
Harter Fell, Wrengill Quarry and the Gatescarth Pass track from our ascent of Tarn crag
Looking back to Branstree from Tarn Crag
Kentmere Pike, Harter Fell and Branstree from Tarn Crag
Gatescarth Pass
The pillar near Tarn Crag's summit cairn
Looking over Goat Scar to Black Combe and the Coniston Fells from Tarn Crag's summit
Tarn Crag seen across Greycrag Tarn
The view southeast towards the Howgill Fells from Grey Crag's summit
Harrop Pike
Heading for Ulthwaite Rigg with High Wether How and Seat Robert on the skyline
Looking over Brunt Tongue to Branstree, High Howes and Selside Pike
Branstree, High Howes and Howes with Selside Pike behind from the middle of nowhere
High Wether How, Seat Robert and Wet Sleddale Reservoir from Ulthwaite Rigg's summit
Wet Sleddale Reservoir with the North Pennines in the distance from Ulthwaite Rigg's summit
Brunt Tongue leading up onto Tarn crag with Kentmere Pike in the distance (right of centre) from the slopes of Scam Matthew
Looking across Swindale to Selside End from Fewling Stones
Our route from Fewling Stones took us back down into Swindale
Truss Gap, Swindale
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