Height: 421 metres / 1381 feet Grid reference: NY 29992 18864
Castle Crag
Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite)
High Seat
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…
Great Gable, Kirk Fell and Pillar from Armboth Fell.
High Seat from the summit of High Tove.
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.
The summit of High Seat - looking towards the sunlit fells from a fierce hailstone shower.
Skiddaw in the sunshine from the summit of Bleaberry Fell.
Two views of Shoulthwaite Gill.
A rainbow appears in front of Blencathra from The Benn summit.
Skiddaw, Lonscale Pike and Blencathra along Shoulthwaite from the summit of Castle Crag, an ancient British Hill Fort.
Watson's Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd and Raise from the summit of Raven Crag.
Thirlmere from Raven Crag.
High Seat
Armboth – Armboth Fell (122) – High Tove (123) – High Seat (124) – Bleaberry Fell (125) – Shoulthwaite – Raven Crag (126) – Castle Crag (Shoulthwaite) – Thirlmere Dam – Armboth
Thirlmere from the ascent of Armboth Fell.
Wainwrights " A balanced boulder, 12 feet high, alongside the footpath from Armboth ".
High Tove from Armboth Fell's summit in the first snow flurry of the winter!
High Seat from High Tove summit cairn.
Looking along the fence from High Seat to High Tove
Robinson shrouded in the mist from High Seat summit.
Bassenthwaite Lake from Bleaberry Fell summit. Broom Fell is to the left and Skiddaw is in the mist with Dodd visible.
Cat Bells across Derwent Water from Bleaberry Fell.
Clough Head, Calfhow Pike and Great Dodd from the descent of Bleaberry Fell.
Raven Crag summit cairn.
A half empty Thirlmere from Raven Crag.
Thirlmere dam from Raven Crag.
Raven Crag from Thirlmere.
Thirlmere from the dam.
View across Thirlmere dam.