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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12½mls (20km) |
| Ascent: | 3,889ft (1,185m) |
| Time: | 8½hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route outline for walk c272:
Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Stony Cove Pike - Caudale Head - Caudale Moor - Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) - Threshthwaite Mouth - Thornthwaite Crag - High Street - Straits of Riggindale - The Knott - Angle Tarn (Martindale) - Angletarn Pikes - Boredale Hause - Patterdale
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 3 English Mountains |
 6 Wainwrights |
 4 English Nuttalls |
 1 English Dewey |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 2 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
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 Thornthwaite Crag at 784m (2573ft). Thornthwaite Crag is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (52nd highest in England, 91st highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 44).
Thornthwaite Crag is also known as an English Nuttall (62nd highest in England, 111th highest in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) at 763m (2504ft). Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (63rd highest in England, 109th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 55).
Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) is also known as an English Nuttall (77th highest in England, 133rd highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (19th highest in 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'.
Along the way you will also bag:
- 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)
- Angletarn Pikes at 567m (1861ft). Angletarn Pikes is classified as a Wainwright (No. 143) and an English Dewey (45th highest in England, 99th highest in England & Wales)
You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):
Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c272 High Street and Angletarn Pikes from Brothers Water
In no particular order . . .
Looking North towards Skiddaw and Blencathra from the summit of Thornthwaite Crag across cloud trapped by a temperature inversion
A break in the wall offers this view down towards Hartsop from the Straits of Riggindale
Rough Crag beyond Blea Water from above Blea Water Crag between High Street and Mardale Ill Bell
*Hayeswater with the Fairfield and Helvellyn Ridges beyond from High Street
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
Hartsop Village with Grey Crag towering beyond from the shores of Brothers Water
Hartsop Dodd across Brothers Water with Gray Crag (Hayeswater) (far left) and Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) (far right)
View from Threshthwaite Crag below Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) with the sun just breaking from behind Thorthwaite Crag
Ullswater, Place Fell (right - distance) and
Hartsop Dodd (right - mid-distance) from Caudale Head
Cloud trapped by a temperature inversion clawing at the eastern slopes of Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick as seen from Thornthwaite Crag
Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield dominate the skyline beyond Brothers Water
Thornthwaite Crag & High Street from below Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)
Early Morning Mist nr Hartsop Village with The Angletarn Pikes and Place Fell in the background
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
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