Hartsop Above How
570m (1871ft)
The Eastern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.75ml (12.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 2,800ft (853m) |
| Time: | 5.75hrs |
| Grade: |  (Moderate) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - High Hartsop Dodd - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75ml (15.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,516ft (1,072m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Arnison Crag - Birks - St Sunday Crag - Deepdale Hause - Cofa Pike - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Bridgend - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75ml (15.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,699ft (1,127m) |
| Time: | 7.25hrs |
| Grade: | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.75ml (22km) |
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| Ascent: | 5,501ft (1,676m) |
| Time: | 10½ hrs |
| Grade: |  (Very Hard) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Caudale Moor - Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) - Caudale Head - Pike How - St Raven's Edge - The Kirkstone Pass - Red Screes - Smallthwaite Band - Middle Dodd - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - High Hartsop Dodd - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Head - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Hartsop Above How
Kate Peacock walked up Hartsop Above How on September 21st, 2024 [from/via/route] Patterdale Hotel [with] Me, Mike, Skye and Amber [weather] Some sun, dry, breezy on the tops. Mist came & went several times - Road walking on our return to the car park. Going up to Fairfield was good fun from St Sunday Crag
James Hughes climbed Hartsop Above How on June 11th, 2024 [from/via/route] Deepdale Horseshoe c235 - From Patterdale [weather] Clear - Post walk pint in Queens Head Troutbeck
John Ramsbottom bagged Hartsop Above How on July 27th, 2024 [from/via/route] Patterdale [with] Lola [weather] Hot Sunny - wild camped on St Sunday Crag, finish with a pint at Queens Head Tirrel.
Mr M A Blanchard hiked Hartsop Above How on May 21st, 2024 [from/via/route] With all the mutts apart from Ted [with] Florence, Millie and Woodie [weather] Cold, bright
Christine Shepherd summited Hartsop Above How on March 1st, 2010 [from/via/route] Walked using walk c333 'The Dovedale Round' from Cow Bridge near Brother's Water. [with] On my own [weather] Winter sunshine with deep snow on the ground - The sun was starting to go down as I reached this summit but I had had a wonderful day on the quiet snowy fells. Climbed again, doing the same walk anti clockwise, on 10.07.2021 Climbed for a third time on 3.3.23 up & down fro the Cow Bridge Car Park.
Ian Ashton conquered Hartsop Above How on February 25th, 2023 [with] With jph
Angeline Grieveson scaled Hartsop Above How on February 19th, 2023 [with] Dotty
Martyn Atherton walked up Hartsop Above How on September 18th, 2022 [from/via/route] C235 Arniston Crag, Birks, St Sunday Crag, Fairfield, Hart Crag & Hartsop Above How [with] Paul Atherton [weather] Misty, rain & Sunny - Loved the route 6 hrs 50 minutes
Michael Nolan climbed Hartsop Above How on October 13th, 2021 [with] Morag [weather] Drizzled
Geoff Hand bagged Hartsop Above How on June 10th, 2022 [from/via/route] Walk c235 The Deepdale Horseshoe from Patterdale, completed after abandoning a couple of weeks before [with] Alone with Tess [weather] Cloudy, very windy but dry! Visibility good. - Completed the Deepdale Horseshoe today. Once down off the hills crossed over Deepdale bridge & followed the path to Beckstones, Crookabeck, Rooking & back to Patterdale. Very pleasant.
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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Hartsop Above How
Thornthwaite Crag (left), Hartsop Dodd and Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) (centre), Red Screes (right) and the shoulder of Hartsop above How (foreground) from Arnison Crag, Patterdale
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