The Nab circuit

With a good forecast it was a question of 'What would you like to do today?' I replied that I knew what we 'ought' to do ....and so we set off for Angle Tarn Crags, Rest Dodd, The Nab and Brock Crags, in the hope that The Nab would be frozen. I suppose this means that I am definitely doing the Wainwright's a second time as it took me over half way and in my books, The Nab - well you wouldn't do it by choice! On the maps it looks like access is from Martindale, but it isn't, so it was onto Rest Dodd then down onto it, then back over Rest Dodd....Fortunately The Nab was frozen, so the peat hags were a scramble rather than a bog snorkel! Frozen ground and the snow patches hard ice...a full winter's day out. Done. 

Looking across Brother's Water to Farifiled and the Helvellyn range

Winter...

Angle Tarn.

Looking to High Raise with the peat hags of The Nab below.

Zooming in to The Nab...

A lovely frozen pond ...and a photo stop...

Washed out winter; the stems are Bog Asphodel.

Looking to Rest Dodd - on the far right.

The summit.

Looking along The Nab after a steep descent.

Back to the col between Rest Dodd and Brock Crags.

A late lunch stop with a view to the steep lump that is Hartsop Dodd - it leads to a super horseshoe though.

High Street with snow...

..and a final view over Angle Tarn . rather that the direct route back to the path below Angle Tarn Crags we retraced our steps, admittedly cutting off the corner, to the main path at the col- easier walking.