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Great day.left the house at 515 and headed for Hartsop car park. Set off by about 8 which was good. Not many people around just now.
Along the track and down over the bridge and looked out for the wee path, heading up steeply!!!
- Ist one ahead and it was steep up to the summit of Gray crag
- On the way up
- Was treated to 3 jets continuously flying round on my way up. Awesome
From here it was time to get round the bug circuit, down and up to Thornthwaite and it's large beacon cairn. I was watching the mist rolling over helvellyn etc. Coming my way, and it did just as I approached the cairn.
- Thornthwaite
From here he short descent and pull up to the trig on high street where it all cleared again.
Down following the wall and cut off up to kidsty pike. Actually a good wee peak 👌
- Looking over to high street from kidsty pike
From being quiet it suddenly dawned that people were everywhere now, coming ftom all different directions and heading for different hills!!
High Raise next another short descent and ascent up to the cairn.
Back down and up and skirt the crags / boulders and onto Rampsgill head. Couple of cairns up here , so visited them all. .
Down now to the good path and another short ascent up to The knott - nice big cairn and nice views over to the crags below Rampsgill head
- The knott
- Enjoy yourself - its later than you think
Big drop ( ish) from here down then back up sharply to Rest Dodd. A few wee deer watching me as I moved along. Sat up here for a bit. I knew I was going to go and finish on the Nab but still sat up herd for a while and thought about it. The wee bit of re ascent wasn't ticking all the boxes with me.
Anyway , got myself together headed down, through the wall , and with it being dry ( ish) , the swamp and bog and peat hags weren't too bad to negotiate ( been through a lot worse up here)
- The Nab
And back to almost the wall, faint path about 100m before it, heading right, on this , up through the wall eventually, up and onto another wee path leading to the wall below Brock crags.
- Good to see some 🦌 in The lake district
Down from here and onto the track back
Slight breeze today and not too hot. Great day time to get fuelled for another day on the Fells tomorrow!!!
