Height: 519 metres / 1703 feet Grid reference: NY 39357 10766 Category: The Eastern Fells
Brothers Water from High Hartsop Dodd
High Hartsop Dodd
High Hartsop Dodd
Dovedale
Start point: Bottom of Kirkstone Pass (NY 402 113)
Kirkstone Pass – Hartsop Hall – Dovedale – Dove Crag – High Bakestones – Scandale Tarn – Little Hart Crag – High Hartsop Dodd – Kirkstone Pass
Distance: 7.9 miles Total Ascent: 915 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes Start Time: 09:30
Weather: Sunny. 17°C
Wow, what a day today – it seems summer has arrived and it was the first time this year that my shorts had an airing. Fantastic views all around as well, you can’t beat it.
Dovedale route map.
Middle Dodd.
Place fell and Angletarn Pikes reflected in a new tarn.
High Hartsop Dodd.
High Hartsop Dodd again and the this will be the route of descent later.
Dove Crag and Hart Crag.
A panoramic view from the Settlement.
Into Dovedale (after negotiating the cows at Hartsop Hall with the two 'cow magnets'!).
Climbing to Dove Crag.
The start of the stone stairway. Dougal and Casper are going the wrong way but you can make out some people climbing the path in the distance.
The view from the top of the climb.
Hartsop above How and the far eastern fells. I got talking on the climb and managed to miss the Priest Hole - next time!
Windermere and Coniston Water from Dove Crag.
It looks hazy to the south east.
Westerly wall panorama including the opposite leg of the Fairfield Horseshoe.
The cairn on High Bakestones.
Little Hart Crag and Scandale Tarn.
Little Hart Crag reflected in Scandale Tarn.
High Bakestones and Dove Crag across Scandale Tarn.
Hot, hot, hot for Casper and Dougal on Little Hart Crag.
Little Hart Crag.
Red Screes from Little Hart Crag.
The view from the secondary summit on Little Hart Crag.
Heading for High Hartsop Dodd - it looks like Dougal has been already and is coming back to see where we are!
Dove Crag from the ridge to High Hartsop Dodd.
Brothers Water from High Hartsop Dodd. Someone's ashes have been put on the summit cairn, a fine place to end up.
The start of the descent.
The steep drop.
Caiston Beck.
Dovedale
Start point: Bottom of Kirkstone Pass (NY 402 113)
Kirkstone Pass – Hartsop Hall – Dovedale – Dove Crag – Bakestones Moss – Little Hart Crag – High Hartsop Dodd – Kirkstone Pass
Distance: 6.4 miles Total Ascent: 730 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 30 minutes
Weather: Strong wind, snow flurries. -2ºC.
It was really cold this morning again but the blue sky and crisp clearness of the weekend was gone to be replaced by strong winter weather. All was icy and frozen around Kirkstone Pass with heavy snow flurries at first. Once on the climb to Dovedale the wind really picked up and on the Dove Crag ridge it was severe and walking was difficult at times. When I got back to valley level I felt like I had taken a real pounding up there.
Blimey, it was cold this morning when I set off. This photo of Middle Dodd and Kirkstone Beck looks cold too.
A frosty wall - mono photos seemed to match the conditions better than colour a lot of the time I thought.
Middle Dodd and Caiston Glen.
Heading into Dovedale.
Icy Dovedale Beck.
Dove Falls.
A ray of sunshine looking back into Dovedale.
Dove Crag.
Getting closer to Dove Crag.
A bit of blue sky up there on the final part of the climb to Dove Crag. It all looks calm in this photo but the wind was picking up now making it feel even colder.
Looking across to the High Street ridge.
The Far Eastern fells - there seemed to be less snow around to the north.
All hell was let loose once up onto the Dove Crag ridge with very strong winds and painful spindrift.
It was as cold as it looks up there.
Looking back to Hart Crag and Fairfield.
Tough going following the wall.
A bit of sunshine to the west through the spindrift.
The summit of Dove Crag.
A quick descent to Bakestones Moss now to try and get out of the wind.
A view of Brothers Water from the descent.
Windswept Casper.
Place Fell from a frozen pool on Bakestones Moss.
Scandale with Scandale Tarn below from Little hart Crag.
St. Sunday Crag from the summit of Little Hart Crag.
Casper on Little Hart Crag.
Red Screes from the tarn on the summit of Little Hart Crag. I had intended going there but not today, it was too wild.
Escape route to High Hartsop Dodd.
Dovedale from High Hartsop Dodd.
It all looks a bit brighter than it did earlier from the steep descent from High Hartsop Dodd.
High Hartsop Dodd
Start point: Cow Bridge (NY 402 134)
Cow Bridge – Brothers Water – Hartsop Hall – High Hartsop Dodd – Hartsop Hall – Brothers Water – Cow Bridge
Distance: 3.7 miles Total Ascent: 420 metres Time Taken: 2 hours
Weather: Grey, wind and rain. 5°C.
It was a bit grim this lunchtime when I set off for High Hartsop Dodd, in fact it was bucketing down with rain and there was a really strong wind so I ended up making it and ‘out and back’ walk, or rather an ‘up and down’ walk! It is a very steep climb straight up the front of High Hartsop Dodd and once on the top the wind was really wild and I was completely drenched. Lo and behold if the sky didn’t clear as soon as I made it back to valley level!
Brothers Water looking a bit full with Hartsop Dodd and a snow-topped Caudale Moor behind.
Middle Dodd and High Hartsop Dodd. This is a snatched photo taken in strong wind and heavy rain at Hartsop Hall.
Hartsop Valley from the start of the climb to High Hartsop Dodd.
It's a steep one this - Angus is mootching about and Casper is rolling about by the looks of things.
Angus stops for a breather.
It was wild on the summit of High Hartsop Dodd and we didn't hang around for long here.
Heading back down towards Brothers Water.
Brock Crags towering above Brothers Water.
Dovedale.
Caudale Moor - look how ominous it is over on Kirkstone Pass to the right.
Hartsop with Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes beyond Brothers Water.
High Hartsop Dodd and Dovedale.
The weather is a bit better than it was on the way up now!
Hartsop Dodd.
Hartsop above How.
Back at Brothers Water.
Red Screes
Start point: Bottom of Kirkstone Pass (NY 402 113)
Kirkstone Pass – Middle Dodd (237) – Smallthwaite Band – Red Screes (238) – Scandale Pass – Little Hart Crag (239) – High Hartsop Dodd (240) – Kirkstone Pass
Weather: Dull, overcast – rain and strong wind on the tops.
Today’s walk is a steep ascent up to Middle Dodd and Red Screes from the bottom of Kirkstone Pass, across the Scandale Pass and a lovely ridge walk from Little Hart Crag to Hartsop Dodd, then a steep descent back to Kirkstone Pass. The weather wasn’t brilliant again today but the high winds meant that there was the odd clearing of the mist to give fleeting glimpses of a view.
Middle Dodd at the start of the walk.
Following the wall up the steep ascent.
Little Hart Crag from Middle Dodd.
Two misty summits; Middle Dodd...
and Red Screes
The mist clears briefly on Smallthwaite Band on the way to Red Screes.
A fleeting glimpse of Little Hart Crag from Scandale Pass.
A misty view of Scandale from Little Hart Crag. Windermere is up to the left, Scandale Tarn to the right.
Looking back along the ridge to Little Hart Crag from High Hartsop Dodd.
Brothers Water and Hartsop from the steep descent from High Hartsop Dodd. See below for an annotated version of this photo.
Twin peaks - Middle Dodd and High Hartsop Dodd.
Red Screes
Cow Bridge – Hartsop Dodd (33) – Caudale Moor (34) – Middle Dodd (35) – Red Screes (36) – Little Hart Crag (37) – High Hartsop Dodd (38) – Cow Bridge
Brothers Water from the ascent of Hartsop Dodd.
View from Hartsop Dodd. L-R : Middle Dodd, Low Pike, High Pike, Dove Crag, Hart Crag with High Hartsop Dodd in the near distance on the right.
Ullswater from Hartsop Dodd, Arnison Crag on the left and Place Fell to the right.
Gray Crag from Hartsop Dodd.
Hartsop Dodd summit, High Raise, Rampsgill Head and Gray Crag behind.
Looking along the wall to Caudale Moor from Hartsop Dodd. Red Screes is to the right.
Caudale Quarry on the side of Caudale Moor, Red Screes behind.
Stony Cove Pike, Caudale Moor summit.
Atkinson's Monument on Caudale Moor.
Middle Dodd summit complete with sleeping man!
Red Screes summit cairn and shelter.
Little Hart Crag summit with High Pike and Low Pike behind.
High Hartsop Dodd summit.
High Hartsop Dodd from Caudalebeck Farm.