25th March 2008

Today's walk: The Naddle Horseshoe (Wainwright's Outlying Fells p224)


looking back at the ascent track from the first cairn on Scalebarrow Knott


looking on towards Harper Hills from the highest cairn on Scalebarrow Knott


reservoir on Harper Hills now well hidden by trees


the cairn on Harper Hills looking back to Scalebarrow Knott and the Pennines


looking on from Harper Hills towards Hare Shaw


isolated chimney stack with Whelter Crags behind ..


.. and again with the return ridge in front of Bampton Common


looking down the Naddle Valley to Knipescar and the Pennines


summit rocks of the east top of Hare Shaw


the Naddle Valley and the Pennines from the highest top of Hare Shaw


the High Street ridge from Hare Shaw


Selside Pike, Branstree and Harter Fell from Hare Shaw


looking back at Hare Shaw across the very rough ground of the descent


High Street from the awkward gate giving access to the return ridge


looking along the ridge to the 1380' top and the Naddle Forest


a glimpse of Haweswater with High Street beyond


Mardale Head skyline from the 1380' top


the ridge of Naddle Forest from the 1380' top


Hugh's Laithes Pike is now behind a high fence but Haweswater dam can be glimpsed through it


the final cairn looking back to the now forbidden Hugh's Laithes Pike


the distant Pennines from the 1320' cairn


the return track through the Naddle Valley ..


.. and lower down zooming in on Cross Fell


Haweswater Dam from the return bridleway