Start Point: Buttermere (NY 176 170)
Buttermere – Hassness – Robinson – High Snockrigg – Buttermere
Distance: 4.3 miles Total Ascent: 700 metres Time Taken: 3 hours Start Time: 08:30
Weather: Long sunny spells, 11°C
Today’s walk was from Buttermere up to Robinson the steep way from Hassness. The weather was changeable though there were long sunny spells. Once on the top of Robinson the cloud closed in and it was back to hat and gloves in the cold wind.
Buttermere was very quiet this early in the morning.
No cars and no people around by the church.
Walking the lakeshore path.
High Stile.
The rock tunnel.
Climbing above Hassness, looking across to Pike.
High Stile feels close enough to touch from here.
A lovely view.
Similar, but higher up.
Goat Gills.
The clouds were on and off the western fells.
This path is steep!
From Wainwright's The North Western Fells, Robinson 8: 'A young rowan has secured a precarious foothold on this crag. Can it survive? Will some kind reader write to the author in 1970 and say it is still alive and well?'. In the 2008 Jesty updated version, it was stated as still there and now known as 'Wainwright's Rowan'.
Fleetwith Pike in black and white.
Haystacks.
High Crag and Stile.
Flatter ground on the way to the summit.
Sunshine on Honister Pass.
There wasn't much of a view when I got to the summit!
Mountain dog views Crummock Water and Loweswater.
Knott Rigg in the sunshine.
Robinson from High Snockrigg.
Dougal, ready for action!
Whiteless Pike.
The sun is out...now!