Walk Route Map c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop

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Vital Statistics:

Length:	11¼mls (18km)
Ascent:	3,843ft (1,171m)
Time:	8hrs
Grade:

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Route outline for walk c128:

Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Caudale Moor - Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) - Caudale Head - Stony Cove Pike - Threshthwaite Mouth - Thornthwaite Crag - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - Rampsgill Head - Kidsty Pike - High Raise (Mardale) - The Knott - Hayeswater Reservoir - Hayeswater Gill - Hartsop - Cow Bridge - Brothers Water.

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

5
English
Mountains

8
Wainwrights

7
English
Nuttalls

0
English
Deweys

0
Wainwright
Outlying Fells

2
Marilyns

0
Bridgets

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The highest point of this walk is High Street at 828m (2717ft). High Street is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (32nd highest in England, 61st highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 25).

High Street is also known as an English Nuttall (38th highest in England, 70th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (11th highest in England, 345th highest in the UK).

The summit of High Street is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

Completing this walk will also take you to the top of High Raise (Mardale) at 804m (2636ft). High Raise (Mardale) is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (39th highest in England, 73rd highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 31).

High Raise (Mardale) is also known as an English Nuttall (46th highest in England, 88th highest in England & Wales).

You will also reach the summit of Rampsgill Head at 792m (2600ft). Rampsgill Head is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (46th highest in England, 84th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 39).

Rampsgill Head is also known as an English Nuttall (55th highest in England, 103rd highest in England & Wales).

Along the way you will also bag:

Thornthwaite Crag at 784m (2573ft). Thornthwaite Crag is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (52nd highest in England, 91st highest in England & Wales), a Wainwright (No. 44) and an English Nuttall (62nd highest in England, 111th highest in England & Wales).

Kidsty Pike at 780m (2560ft). Kidsty Pike is classified as a Wainwright (No. 46) and an English Nuttall (64th highest in England, 115th highest in England & Wales)

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) at 763m (2504ft). Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (63rd England, 109th highest in England & Wales), a Wainwright (No. 55), an English Nuttall (77th highest in England, 133rd highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (19th England, 465th highest in the UK). In Alfred Wainwright's 'Book Two - The Far Eastern Fells' the chapter for Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) is entitled simply 'Caudale Moor'.

The Knott at 739m (2425ft). The Knott is classified as a Wainwright (No. 66)

Hartsop Dodd at 619m (2031ft). Hartsop Dodd is classified as a Wainwright (No. 126) and an English Nuttall (235th highest in England, 410th highest in England & Wales)

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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop

In no particular order . . .

Ullswater and Place Fell from snowy Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Chris Haselden (43)

Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Ivor Bennett (15)

Brock Crags (left), The Knott and Gray Crag (right) from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Philip Butler (7)

On the footbridge over Hayeswater Gill, Hayeswater Reservoir

Photo: Peter Lloyd (5)

Blea Water from High Street

Photo: William Ringwood (49)

High Street from Thornthwaite Crag

Photo: William Ringwood (62)

Rough Crag (Riggindale) from High Street

Photo: William Ringwood (48)

Hartsop village from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Philip Butler (6)

Brothers Water

Photo: Andy Malcolm (60)

Dovedale from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Ivor Bennett (12)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd across Brothers Water with Gray Crag (Hayeswater) (far left) and Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) (far right)

Hartsop Dodd across Brothers Water with Gray Crag (Hayeswater) (far left) and Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) (far right)

Photo: Rob Barklamb (43)

High Street summit

Photo: William Ringwood (50)

Patterdale from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Ivor Bennett (14)

Troutbeck from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Photo: Ivor Bennett (17)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - My wife Terry and two youngest daughters Emily & Elizabeth on their 1st Wainwright (High Street) taken on a Bank Holiday Sunday a couple of years ago

My wife Terry and two youngest daughters Emily & Elizabeth on their 1st Wainwright (High Street) taken on a Bank Holiday Sunday a couple of years ago

Photo: Stephen Ellaby (3)

Looking up to a snowy Threshwaite Mouth from Brothers Water

Photo: Chris Haselden (44)

Rough Crag beyond Blea Water from above Blea Water Crag between High Street and Mardale Ill Bell

Photo: Andy Malcolm (233)

*Snow on Gray Crag (Hayeswater) from High Street

Photo: Richard Nicholls (61)

Rampsgill Head summit

Photo: Robert Hall (22)

A break in the wall offers this view down towards Hartsop from the Straits of Riggindale

Photo: Andy Malcolm (234)

A distant Lake Windermere from the summit of High Street in the snow

Photo: Tim Hope (90)

*Snow on Hayeswater from High Street

Photo: Richard Nicholls (62)

High Hartsop Dodd from Brothers Water

Photo: David Hayter (59)

High Raise (Mardale) summit cairn

Photo: Robert Hall (26)

Me on the summit of High Street in the snow

Photo: Tim Hope (89)

The large cairn on the High Raise (Mardale) summit)

Photo: Christine Shepherd (480)

*Hayeswater with the Fairfield and Helvellyn Ridges beyond from High Street

Photo: Andy Malcolm (25)

South toward The Kirkstone Pass from the shores of Brothers Water

Photo: Chris Haselden (25)

Rampsgill Head from The Knott summit

Photo: Robert Hall (21)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - Looking North towards Skiddaw and Blencathra from the summit of Thornthwaite Crag across cloud trapped by a temperature inversion

Looking North towards Skiddaw and Blencathra from the summit of Thornthwaite Crag across cloud trapped by a temperature inversion

Photo: Paul Johnson (15)

High Street Summit

Photo: William Ringwood (29)

High Raise and Raven Howe from Rampsgill Head

Photo: William Ringwood (30)

Twopenny Crag from Kidsty Pike

Photo: Robert Hall (24)

John, Andy and myself on High Street in the snow

Photo: Richard Jennings (4)

Looking West from the summit of High Street

Photo: Jason Greenall (1)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - Rest Dodd (far left), The Nab (left), The Ramps Gill Valley, Wether Hill, Wether Hill (South Top) Keasgill Head, Red Crag, Raven Howe and High Raise (Mardale) (right) from Rampsgill Head

Rest Dodd (far left), The Nab (left), The Ramps Gill Valley, Wether Hill, Wether Hill (South Top) Keasgill Head, Red Crag, Raven Howe and High Raise (Mardale) (right) from Rampsgill Head

Photo: Andy Malcolm (235)

Thornthwaite Crag & High Street from below Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Photo: William Ringwood (61)

Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick from High Street

Photo: Phillip Houlton (14)

Hartsop Dodd from Hartsop

Photo: Ivor Bennett (11)

Approaching Kidsty Pike from Rampsgill Head

Photo: Paul Holroyd (8)

The Nab (Martindale) from Rampsgill Head

Photo: David Hayter (113)

Hartsopp Dodd from the shores of Brothers Water

Photo: Chris Haselden (26)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - The lower slopes of Hartsop Dodd (left), Caudale Head, The Kirkstone Pass and High Hartsop Dodd (right, behind the tree) reflected in Brothers Water in the snow

The lower slopes of Hartsop Dodd (left), Caudale Head, The Kirkstone Pass and High Hartsop Dodd (right, behind the tree) reflected in Brothers Water in the snow

Photo: Ray Bessant (2)

High Street summit Trig Point

Photo: Christine Shepherd (518)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - Cloud trapped by a temperature inversion clawing at the eastern slopes of Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick as seen from Thornthwaite Crag

Cloud trapped by a temperature inversion clawing at the eastern slopes of Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick as seen from Thornthwaite Crag

Photo: Paul Johnson (16)

Hayeswater from the col between Thornthwaite Crag and High Street

Photo: Matt Delemare (6)

Kidsty Pike summit cairn

Photo: Christine Shepherd (460)

Froswick, Ill Bell and Yoke from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Photo: Ivor Bennett (16)

Brothers Water

Photo: David Hayter (58)

Hartsop Village with Grey Crag towering beyond from the shores of Brothers Water

Photo: Chris Haselden (24)

On Kidsty Pike summit in mist

Photo: Christine Shepherd (47)

The summit cairn on Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Christine Shepherd (513)

On the summit of High Raise (Langdale)

Photo: Christine Shepherd (847)

Brothers Water

Photo: Andy Malcolm (174)

Knott & Rest Dodd from the Straits of Riggindale

Photo: William Ringwood (63)

High Street summit

Photo: Phillip Houlton (13)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - View from Threshthwaite Crag below Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) with the sun just breaking from behind Thorthwaite Crag

View from Threshthwaite Crag below Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) with the sun just breaking from behind Thorthwaite Crag

Photo: Paul Johnson (19)

Kidsty Pike from Rampsgill Head

Photo: Robert Hall (23)

Early Morning Mist nr Hartsop Village with The Angletarn Pikes and Place Fell in the background

Photo: Chris Haselden (8)

Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield dominate the skyline beyond Brothers Water

Photo: Andy Malcolm (122)

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: William Ringwood (60)

Froswick and Ill Bell from the path to Thornthwaite Crag

Photo: Ivor Bennett (10)

Walk c128 The Hayswater Round from Hartsop - Ullswater, Place Fell (right - distance) and <br>Hartsop Dodd (right - mid-distance) from Caudale Head

Ullswater, Place Fell (right - distance) and
Hartsop Dodd (right - mid-distance) from Caudale Head

Photo: Chris Trueman (2)

Angle Tarn Pikes, Place Fell and Hartsop from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Ivor Bennett (13)

Hartsop Dodd summit cairn

Photo: Christine Shepherd (551)

Mardale Head and Haweswater Reservoir from Kidsty Pike

Photo: Robert Hall (25)

Hayeswater with the Fairfield and Helvellyn Ridges beyond from High Street

Photo: Andy Malcolm (22)

Kidsty Pike from Straits of Riggindale

Photo: David Hayter (112)

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) and Thornthwaite Crag from Hartsop

Photo: Wayne Hill (73)

Place Fell from a very snowy Threshthwaite Mouth

Photo: Chris Haselden (42)

Hartsop and Ullswater beyond from Hartsop Dodd

Photo: Wayne Hill (72)

On Kidsty Pike

Photo: Dave Ditchburn (1)

Blea Tarn from High Street

Photo: Matt Delemare (7)

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