Start point: Mardale Head (NY 469 107)
Mardale Head – Blea Water – Caspel Gate – Long Stile – High Street – Straits of Riggindale – Rampsgill Head – Kidsty Pike – Kidsty Howes – The Rigg – Mardale Head
Distance: 6.2 miles Total Ascent: 735 metres Time Taken: 3 hours Start Time: 07:00
Weather: Overcast and cold. 11C
The sunshine and optimism of an early start soon disappeared this morning with the bulk of fells being covered in cloud. I walked a round of Riggindale waiting for the summer to make a reappearance but was disappointed that it never happened, I was ready for it too with my shorts on…and of course my hat and gloves! No sign of the Golden Eagle today either although I did have a good look.
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This is shown as a footbridge on the map although I wouldn't fancy chancing it when the beck is in spate!
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Dougal seems to know where we are climbing to, up to Long Stile which has just appeared from the mist.
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Rough Crag and Caspel Gate, Haweswater in view with the cloud lifting and then coming back again instantly.