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From: Dale Bottom
Parking: Dale Bottom
Start Point: William's Beck
Region: Southern Fells
Route length: 1.6 miles (2.5km)
Time taken: 00:45
Average speed: 2.09 mph
Ascent: 196m
Descent: 197m
Wainwrights on this walk:
High Rigg (357m)
Additional summits: None
Other points of interest: William's Beck
I'm not going to hide from the stark facts - this was a shameless summit ticking exercise. There are some fells that just don't fit into a nice circuit or ridge walk but stand isolated and alone, not difficult to climb but challenging to actually figure out when to climb them. A trio of these form some of the smaller heights of the Central Fells; High Rigg and Raven Crag on the Thirlmere side and Castle Crag (the smallest of all the Wainwrights) on the Derwentwater side. What better way to spend an afternoon than climbing all three of them? I'd spent the morning tramping around Martindale in the clouds, what a difference a day makes.
First up was High Rigg, located between the ridges descending from High Raise and Helvellyn. It's a pleasant little fell, climbing to a height of 357m. We parked the car just off the road at the foot of William's Beck, a small stream that flows off the hillside. It forms a very neat and tidy ravine which draws the attention, so much so that we began to climb it with little hesitation.
William's Beck as it emerges from the slopes of High Rigg |
Negotiating some of the slightly trickier sections |
William's Beck |
William's Beck |
The summit appears at the top of the stream |
The moss that sources William's Beck |
Skiddaw and Blencathra |
Latrigg |
The view towards Helvellyn |
Raven Crag over High Rigg's lower top |
High Rigg's summit |
Clough Head |
Beckthorns Gill |
Blencathra over St. John's in the Vale |
Hall's Fell Ridge is picked out in the sunlight |
The wide path leading off the summit |
Dodd Crag and Castlerigg Fell |
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