High Hartsop Dodd and a detour!

A fantastic day out on the fells, hot - but a gentle breeze. Parked up at the lay-by just past Brothers Water with the aim of finishing the horseshoe I only got half way round in January click here for that walk and ticking off the last Wainwright in that area.

A lovely walk up Caiston Glen to Scandale Pass. Lots of waterfalls and pools. At the pass High Pike looked a pleasant stroll out - so a quick check that it was a Wainwright and we decided to do that one too...on arrival we realised we'd already done it but hey ho! Great views down over Windermere and Coniston and over to the Langdale Pikes and Great End. Then back to the pass and we passed under Little Hart Crag to our Wainwright - High Hartsop Dodd. Unbeknown to us, until we got home, Little Hart Crag still needed to be done - the route planner is sacked! But then again it's such a lovely route there's no hardship in going back again to finally finish the Wainwrights of the area! On descending from High Hartsop Dodd it was good to see extensive patches of bluebells and the remains of a Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle. Stone hut circle info.

Looking back over Brothers Water.

Views ...back over Brothers Water; up towards Little hart Crag; towards Red Screes; down Windermere; across to Great End and St Sunday Crag and Helvellyn.

Happy Rocky.

Water details.

Butterwort and bluebells.

Buebells.

The enclosed hut circle.