Route: Ambleside - Nook Lane - Low Sweden Bridge - Low Pike - High Pike - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Link Hause - Fairfield - Great Rigg - Erne Crag top - Heron Pike - Nab Scar - Rydal Park - Ambleside
Distance: 12.00 miles
Ascent: 3,440ft
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Dry, high cloud, sunny
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The start of the Fairfield Horseshoe, Nook Lane, Ambleside
Nook End Farm and the west arm of the Fairfield Horseshoe (Nab Scar, the double top of Heron Pike and Great Rigg)
Low Pike and High Pike from low down the ridge
View south west from near Low Pike summit
High Pike and Little Hart Crag from Low Pike summit
Windermere and near Low Pike summit
Westwards to the high fells from Dove Crag summit
360 Panorama from High Pike's summit
360 Panorama from Dove Crag's summit
The Far Eastern Fells, Hartsop above How, Brothers Water and Dovedale from Dove Crag
The Far Eastern Fells from Hart Crag's summit (southeast and higher cairn)
Looking west over Great Rigg to the high fells from Hart Crag's northwestern summit cairn
Deepdale from Link Hause
Rydal Beck and Windermere
Fairfield's summit and Cofa Pike with Helvellyn and the point of Catstycam above Striding Edge in the distance
Northerly Panorama from Fairfield's summit
The motorway to Great Rigg from Fairfield
Looking back to Dollywaggon Pike and Fairfield from near Great Rigg's summit
Fairfield from Great Rigg's summit cairn
360 Panorama from Great Rigg's summit
Great Rigg, Fairfield and Hart Crag surrounding Rydal Head from Heron Pike
Windermere from Heron Pike summit
360 Panorama from Heron Pike's summit
The Langdale Fells from Nab Scar's summit cairn
Rydal Water and Grasmere from the yard square stone block on Nab Scar marking the Thirlmere aqueduct vertically below
High Pike and Low Pike from the descent to Rydal from Nab Scar
Nab Scar, the double top of Heron Pike, Great Rigg and the flat top of Fairfield from Rydal Park
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