Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 10:39 pmFirst day back walking for a while and we decided to head for Buttermere, so headed over Honister Pass and parked in the NT car park at Buttermere as I have joined the NT and decided to get my moneysworth in parking. It was sunny, but windy on the tops, great views, great bluebells, fantastic day! Walked down to the lake and paused to admire the view.
Then onwards towards Red Pike, though we had to keep stopping to check the view behind us.
Good place to stop for lunch and see the crags that we would be walking above later.
Quite a steep climb from here up to the top of Red Pike but had to keep stopping anyway to admire the view.
Then the slippery, red, steep bit to the top. Met someone from Iowa sliding down rather faster than he intended to.
It was quite windy on top so headed off to High Crag and then slithered down steeply via Gamlin End to the main path back toward Buttermere. Some great bluebells around here, I'd heard about the ones at Rannerdale but didn't know about these so they were a nice surprise.
Then headed back to Buttermere with the scent of bluebells and sunshine!
Altogether a great walk on a great day, sun, lake views, hill views, not too busy, a tarn, crags, steep bits, easy bits, pub at the end, drive back over Honister and back in time for the cup final - apparently!
- Buttermere looking towards Fleetwith Pike
- Climbing up towards Red Pike, looking back at Buttermere.
- Bleawater Tarn.
- Looking down Crummock Water from the climb up to Red Pike.
- Red Pike - the red bit.
- Didn't take any pics on top of Red Pike as there were quite a lot of people hogging the cairn and it was quite windy. So moved on to High Stile which had great views of some hills for the future!
- Some places to go in the future.
- Haystacks with bluebells.
- Downhill towards Buttermere again. Looks very peaceful but my knees were complaining though!
