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Date: 21/11/2015
From: Ambleside
Parking: Roadside Parking on Under Loughrigg
Start Point: Rydal Mount
Region: Eastern Fells
Route length: 12.5 miles (20.1 km)
Time taken: 05:41
Average speed: 2.2 mph
Ascent: 1,193m
Descent: 1,199m
Wainwrights on this walk:
Nab Scar (455m), Heron Pike (612m), Stone Arthur (503m), Great Rigg (766m), Fairfield (873m), Hart Crag (822m), Dove Crag (792m), High Pike (656m), Low Pike (508m)
Other Summits: Rydal Fell (621m)
Other points of interest: Flinty Grave, Scrubby Crag, Low Brock Crags
Winter is starting to peek its head over the horizon and the first dusting of snow has landed in the Lake District, reason enough to warrant an impromptu day out. The effort this time would be focussed on a pair of fells that have remained elusive until now and are the final pair of fells from the Eastern Fells book; Nab Scar and Stone Arthur. The ideal way to incorporate them into a day out would be to repeat a Lakeland favourite, the Fairfield Horseshoe.
It's a walk I've done before, though we started from an unorthodox place, visiting Alcock Tarn and emerging on Heron Pike. This explains why Nab Scar has remained unclimbed for so long. Stone Arthur on the other hand stands somewhat isolated though can be joined to the horseshoe as I did today.
I arrived early in the morning having weaved a path through a trail of fallen trees and powerlines from a previous storm, parking the car on Under Loughrigg, a road that provides a reasonable number of free spaces. No prizes for guessing where it is located. The sun was out in force as I set off along the road though, despite appearances, it wasn't going to be a warm day. A stiff northerly wind brought a forecast windchill of -20C on the fell tops so there were plenty of layers in the pack waiting in reserve.
A bright morning in Ambleside |
Under Loughrigg |
Looking across to Nab Scar |
The footings of Nab Scar |
High Pike and Low Pike on the opposite side of the valley |
The interesting Loughrigg Fell |
The view across Rydal |
Looking over Silver How to Crinkle Crags |
Looking right into the sun over Windermere |
Silver How with the high fells of Great Langdale beyond |
Nab Scar's summit |
High Raise |
A superb panorama from Nab Scar |
Looking across Blind Cove towards Rydal Fell and Fairfield |
The view into Grasmere |
Helm Crag, Gibson Knott and Tarn Crag |
The view from Heron Pike |
Looking back to Heron Pike |
The summit of Rydal Fell |
The view across the valley to High Pike |
Great Rigg, Fairfield and Hart Crag |
A very short descent from Rydal Fell leads to a long, broad and largely flat ridge that connects Heron Pike to Great Rigg. Branching off this is the ridge that falls away to Stone Arthur, some distance below. I left the well-established path ridge top path to follow the contours across the top of Greendale Gill, meeting the path that leads between Stone Arthur and Great Rigg before, oddly, walking down to the summit.
Fairfield at the head of Rydal |
Dove Crag |
Great Rigg |
Greenhead Gill |
Greenburn Bottom and Steel Fell |
The summit of Stone Arthur |
Grasmere |
Helm Crag |
Blea Rigg |
Seat Sandal |
Grisedale Hause and Dollywaggon Pike |
Looking up towards Great Rigg |
The view down to Grasmere and Windermere |
Stone Cove |
The summit of Great Rigg |
The high fells make an appearance |
The summit of Fairfield |
St. Sunday Crag and Deepdale |
The summit cairn on Fairfield |
The crags on the north face of Fairfield |
The plateau of Fairfield |
Looking down Black Tippet |
Link Hause and Hart Crag |
Rydal Fell |
Hart Crag |
Looking down Hartsop above How |
Great Rigg |
Hart Crag's summit |
The broad Dove Crag |
Looking back to Hart Crag and Fairfield |
Caudale Moor |
The summit of Dove Crag |
The largely flat ridge leading from Dove Crag |
Thack Bottom Edge |
Little Hart Crag |
Red Screes |
High Pike's summit |
Scandale |
The view to Low Pike |
Heron Pike |
Looking up at High Pike |
Low Pike |
Low Pike, Fairfield and Great Rigg |
Summit of Low Pike |
Rydal, Loughrigg and the Coniston Fells |
Low Pike and High Pike |
Ambleside and Windermere |
Nab Scar |
Rydal Water |
Scandale Beck |
The Fairfield Horseshoe |
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