Route: Mardale Head - Haweswater - Riggindale - Kidsty Howes - Kidsty Pike - Straits of Riggindale - High Street - Mardale Ill Bell - Nan Bield Pass - Small Water - Mardale Head
Distance: 7.50 miles
Ascent: 2,400ft
Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Cloud building to engulf the high fells. A bit of old snow on the ground high up.
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Looking across Riggindale to Kidsty Pike
Speaking Crag, Haweswater
Kidsty Pike and Kidsty Howes
High Street at the head of Riggindale
Haweswater and Naddle Forest with the North Pennines in the distance
High Raise from Kidsty Pike's summit
Looking back to Kidsty Pike
The Straits of Riggindale
Walkers approaching High Street's summit trig point
Small Water comes into view as we drop out of the cloud on the descent from Nan Bield Pass
Stone shelters at Small Water
Small Water
Looking down on Mardale Head
The Rigg and Rough Crag with Kidsty Pike on the right and Harter Fell lost in cloud on the left
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