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I had set the alarm for early o'clock and so I was off down the permissive path in the Kirkstone Pass towards Brothers Water by 6.20am.
First came the lung bursting ascent up the steep nose of Middle Dodd to claim my first ever Wainwright. Then the much more sedate walk over to Red Screes with its summit trig pillar and jumble of cairns. From there it was down into Scandale and past the little lochan, sorry, tarn, onto Little Hart Crag, where I dumped my daypack and travelled light down the broad ridge to High Hartsop Dodd. Back up to collect the pack and then it was the climb up between Black Brow and Scandale Head and onto Dove Crag, before the walk above the head of Dovedale onto Hart Crag. Here I met a chap (and his dog) from near Oban who was down on holiday in Ambleside and had a hill pass for a few hours, so he was putting it to good use to do the Fairfield Horseshoe. Then I retraced my steps for a short distance before picking up the path down into Dovedale which eventually emptied me out at the campsite and the pub for a short road walk and then back onto the path up the Kirkstone Pass to the car at Red Pits.
And thus ended the Outlands 2016 tour.
Place Fell and Brothers Water at the foot of the Kirkstone Pass
Middle Dodd from the north - the way up
Hartsop above How, Brothers Water and Place Fell
Summit of Middle Dodd looking to (L-R) High Hartsop Dodd, Hartsop above How, Birks, Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes
North west from Middle Dodd across Little Hart Crag in the foreground, Dove Crag and St Sunday Crag Crag in the middle ground, and Helvellyn in the background
Red Screes from Middle Dodd
Summit of Red Screes
Windermere from Red Screes
Middle Dodd from Red Screes
Zoomed to Helvellyn
My first Lake District Hewitt - it had to be done!
East towards the Ill Bell lot
Descending to the watershed in the Scandale Pass
Little Hart Crag
Across Dovedale to St Sunday Crag
Red Screes from the summit of Little Hart Crag
South down Scandale to Ambleside and Windermere
From Little Hart Crag looking north down High Hartsop Dodd - Hartsop above How, Place Fell, Angletarn Pikes and Hartsop Dodd encircling Brorthers Water in the background
Looking north from the rather understated summit of High Hartsop Dodd
Middle Dodd and Red Screes
Back to Little Hart Crag
St Sunday Crag across Dovedale
Caudale Moor
Little Hart Crag and Dove Crag
St Sunday Crag across the head of Dovedale
Approaching the summit of Dove Crag with Fairfield in the background
Windermere and Coniston Water from Dove Crag
St Sunday Crag and Place Fell from Dove Crag
Hart Crag and Fairfield in the clag
En route to Hart Crag - I thought I had left all the sheep behind in Wales, but obviously not!
A fine looking specimen - the summit of Hart Crag that is!
Looking along the ridge of Hartsop above How from the summit of Hart Crag
Down Dovedale
Dove Crag from the north in Dovedale
Hartsop above How and Dovedale
Dove Crag
Caudale Moor from lower Dovedale
Looking back up Dovedale
High Hartsop Dodd
High Hartsop Dodd again
Middle Dodd and High Hartsop Dodd
The two Dodds again from the Brothers Water Inn