Wednesday 7 November 2018

Kentmere to Mardale Head via High Street and Riggindale. 10miles 2750ft ascent


St. Cuthbert's church in the hamlet of Kentmere

Walking north up the Kentmere valley

Froswick, Thornthwaite crag and the Upper Kent valley

Kentmere reservoir with Ill Bell and Froswick

Climbing Nan Bield Pass with its wind shelter visible

Small Water with Haweswater behind from the path
to Mardale Ill Bell 

Looking back to Nan Bield Pass with a very frosty north face
of Harter Fell behind

Froswick and Ill Bell again with Windermere behind

The line of the Roman Road crossing High Street

High Street trig point 828m (2717ft)

Helvellyn with Striding Edge and Swirral Edge

Starting the descent down Riggindale
(A pair of Golden Eagles nested here until recently)

Riggindale and Haweswater

Blea Water with Harter fell behind

Haweswater from Riggindale



Mardale Head with Gatesgarth Pass behind

The final stretch to Mardale Head

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