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Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite)

Height: 421 metres / 1381 feet Grid reference: NY 29992 18864

Castle Crag

Castle Crag

High Seat

Walked on 13/09/2004

Start point: Armboth car park (NY 306 172)

Armboth – Armboth Fell (155) – High Tove (156) – High Seat (157) – Bleaberry Fell (158) – The Benn (159) – Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite) (160) – Raven Crag (161) – Armboth

Weather: Rain with hailstone showers and the odd sunny spell.

Today’s walk felt like it marked the end of summer, I am sad to report. It was a bitterly cold wind blowing on the tops with heavy hailstone showers. The central fells along the High Seat ridge are renowned for being boggy and today was no exception…

High Seat

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Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Pillar from Armboth Fell.

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High Seat from the summit of High Tove.

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The Coledale Fells from the boggy ascent of High Seat. Grasmoor is in the background sun to the left, Grisedale Pike to the extreme right.

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The summit of High Seat - looking towards the sunlit fells from a fierce hailstone shower.

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Skiddaw in the sunshine from the summit of Bleaberry Fell.

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Two views of Shoulthwaite Gill.

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A rainbow appears in front of Blencathra from The Benn summit.

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Skiddaw, Lonscale Pike and Blencathra along Shoulthwaite from the summit of Castle Crag, an ancient British Hill Fort.

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Watson's Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd and Raise from the summit of Raven Crag.

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Thirlmere from Raven Crag.

High Seat

Walked on 22/10/2003

Armboth – Armboth Fell (122) – High Tove (123) – High Seat (124) – Bleaberry Fell (125) – Shoulthwaite – Raven Crag (126) – Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite) – Thirlmere Dam – Armboth

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