With the glorious weather, a pleasent reminder that August can be nice, it was an early start for a carparking place at Little Town. So we left at 7:30 to arrive just after 8 and rather conveniently the farm on the right as you go into Little Town now allows parking for £5 for the day...and it's more or less opposite the track up to Hause Gate - which is signed with a finger post. Newlands valley, in these Covid times, has been turned into a giant campsite with every field hosting campers.... We did wonder if the fells would be crowded and given it was bank holiday weekend, slightly concerned that venturing into Central Lakes may have been a mistake, but we literally only saw may be 15 people on Maiden Moor and High Spy - Catbells later on as we came down was a different matter - fortunately though we weren't going that way! Cracking views and a great ridge walk - so much so that rather than descending to Dale Head tarn and the valley track for our return route, we retraced our steps along the ridge.
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| Arriving at Hause Gate looking back across Newlands. |
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| looking up Borrowdale. |
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| Derwentwater. |
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| From Maiden Moor towards Catbells. |
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| High Spy summit cairn. |
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| Looking across to Dale Head. |
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