Height: 519 metres / 1703 feet Grid reference: NY 39357 10766 Category: The Eastern Fells

Brothers Water from High Hartsop Dodd

High Hartsop Dodd
Height: 519 metres / 1703 feet Grid reference: NY 39357 10766 Category: The Eastern Fells
Brothers Water from High Hartsop Dodd
High Hartsop Dodd
Walked on
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.
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.
Hartsop above How and the far eastern fells. I got talking on the climb and managed to miss the Priest Hole - next time!
Heading for High Hartsop Dodd - it looks like Dougal has been already and is coming back to see where we are!
Walked on
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.
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.
All hell was let loose once up onto the Dove Crag ridge with very strong winds and painful spindrift.
Walked on
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!
Middle Dodd and High Hartsop Dodd. This is a snatched photo taken in strong wind and heavy rain at Hartsop Hall.
Walked on
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.
A misty view of Scandale from Little Hart Crag. Windermere is up to the left, Scandale Tarn to the right.
Walked on
Cow Bridge – Hartsop Dodd (33) – Caudale Moor (34) – Middle Dodd (35) – Red Screes (36) – Little Hart Crag (37) – High Hartsop Dodd (38) – Cow Bridge