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Deepdale Horseshoe

Walked on 01/11/2006

Start point: Deepdale Bridge (NY 399 144)

Deepdale Bridge – Gale Crag – Hartsop Above How – Hart Crag – Fairfield – Cofa Pike – Saint Sunday Crag – Gavel Pike –  Birks – Arnison Crag – Deepdale Bridge

Distance: 10.3 miles     Total Ascent: 1431 metres     Time Taken: 4 hours 45 minutes

Weather: Clear and cold, especially on the highest tops. 9oC.

After a cold and frosty night, it was a really clear day today with lovely blue skies and autumnal colours all around Deepdale. The Hartsop above How ridge is a fine walk and the return across Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag makes a lovely circuit of the valley. Angus and Casper managed to get recognised again on St. Sunday Crag by a StridingEdge fan, and (by default) so did I!

01 Deepdale Horseshoe

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Autumnal Deepdale at the start of the walk.

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Gavel Pike on St. Sunday Crag from the Hartsop above How ridge.

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St. Sunday Crag across Deepdale.

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Looking back to Place Fell.

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Angletarn Pikes.

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St. Sunday Crag.

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Onward and upward - looking back to Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes.

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Looking along the ridge to Hart Crag and Fairfield.

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Angus.

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A pair of Beardies on Hartsop above How. Down below in Dovedale, I could see foxhounds and hear the constant shouts and blowing horn of the huntsmen. Not sure what they hunt these days, though!

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Looking across an icy pool to Hart Crag and Fairfield.

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Fairfield.

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Looking down the Hartsop above How ridge from Hart Crag.

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Shooting into direct sunlight, not a good idea - but I liked the way the sun lit up Windermere and Morecambe Bay from Hart Crag.

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The summit of Hart Crag.

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The western fells from Fairfield, the familiar shape of Great Gable to the left.

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...and a wider panorama.

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Great Gable.

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Looks busy over on Helvellyn.

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Dollywagon Pike, Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn across Grisedale.

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Cofa Pike and St. Sunday Crag.

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Seat Sandal above Grisedale Tarn and the view westwards beyond from Cofa Pike.

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Dollywagon Pike.

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The summit of St. Sunday Crag - it's starting to cloud a bit now.

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Gavel Pike and the Far Eastern fells from St. Sunday Crag. I could hear the bellowing of stags somewhere down below from here.

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Ullswater and Birks from Gavel Pike.

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Birks.

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Hartsop on the descent from Birks.

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Ullswater and Great Mell Fell from Trough Head.

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Hartsop from the summit of Arnison Crag.

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Just the three of us here on Arnison Crag.

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Place Fell and Autumn in Deepdale.

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