High Street from Mardale Head
Sun 19 Aug 2012
Route: Mardale Head - Rough Crag - Caspel Gate Tarn - Long Stile - High Street - Mardale Ill Bell - Nan Bield Pass - Small Water - Mardale Head
Distance: 5.75 miles
Ascent: 2,200ft
Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
A morning walk to try and beat the forecasted heavy rain. Some sunshine to start, cloud building, light rain from Small Water onwards.
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Looking across Haweswater to Riggindale
Mardale Beck with Mardale Ill Bell in the distance
Harter Fell from the path round to Riggindale
Riggindale and Kidsty Pike
Haweswater
Swine Crag
Harter Fell
Haweswater with the North Pennines in the distance
Blea Water
Long Stile from Caspel Gate Tarn
Looking back down on Rough Crag from the top of Long Stile
High Street summit
Fairfield and Helvellyn, to name two, from High Street's summit
Thornthwaite Beacon
The motorway to Mardale Ill Bell
Looking back to High Street from Mardale Ill Bell's summit
Nan Bield Pass
Yoke and Ill Bell above Kentmere Reservoir from Nan Bield Pass
Small Water
Looking down on Mardale Head from Small Water Beck
Previous Walk: Great Crag from Stonethwaite (Sat 18 Aug 2012)