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.