Route: Mardale Head - Small Water - Nan Bield Pass - Mardale Ill Bell - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - Rampsgill Head - Kidsty Pike - Kidsty Howes - Riggindale - Haweswater - Mardale Head
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 2,385ft
Time: 3 hours 50 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Overcast, snow on the high fells, very windy on the tops, strong enough to blow Anne over!
© Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Licence number AL100038401
Looking across Haweswater to Riggindale with snow on High Street, Rough Crag on the left and Kidsty Pike on the right
Harter Fell and The Rigg at the head of Haweswater
Mardale Ill Bell from the road end at Mardale Head
Looking back down on Mardale Head from our route up to Small Water
Small Water
Looking back down on Small Water as we head for Nan Bield Pass
Nan Bield Pass
Yoke and Ill Bell above Kentmere Reservoir
Harter Fell on the other side of Nan Bield Pass
Small Water and Haweswater
Long Stile with Kidsty Pike beyond and Blea Water below from Mardale Ill Bell
Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick
Mardale Ill Bell with Harter Fell behind
Approaching High Street's summit
The Straits of Riggindale and Twopenny Crag
Gray Crag, Hayeswater and the Helvellyn range
Thornthwaite Crag on the far left and Caudale Moor behind the Gray Crag ridge
Looking back to High Street
Kidsty Pike
Northwesterly panorama from Rampsgill Head
Looking down into Riggindale from Kidsty Pike
Clouds above the ridge between Rampsgill Head and High Raise
Haweswater and The Rigg from Kidsty Howes
Haweswater and Speaking Crag
Riggindale with Kidsty Pike on the right
Previous Walk: Teesdale Waterfalls (Sat 16 Apr 2005)
Next Walk: Murton Pike from Murton (Tue 19 Apr 2005)