Walk

Walk : Hartsop above How (1,870 ft) from Bridgend

Date : 20^th August 2019

Weather : Overcast, threatening rain @ 14°C

Distance : 4.5 miles round trip

Time Taken : 1 hour 35 mins to summit

Which part of Lakeland is this walk situated

Terrain Overview

Overview

Our week long stay in Ambleside promised much but due to the abnormally bad weather produced only one walk all week on this the only day

when the heavens were not opening. This was meant to be the first opening walk of the week to get the legs stretched for greater heights, and

actually took us two attempts to do. The walk itself is fairly straight forward in that after navigating through Low Wood in Deepdale Park it’s a case

of just following the wall that runs all the way up the north ridge of the fell. The reward is some fine views across Dovedale and also the

Priest Cave on Dove Crag

The walk starts by the phone box at the side of the A592 (Kirkstone Pass) road at Bridgend. There is free car parking for several cars

From the phone box go left for about 20 yards or so to a stile cut into the wall near a five bar gate

Follow the cart track which crosses Deepdale park towards an old stone barn

On approaching the barn veer left following the wall towards a access gate into Low Wood

Go through the gate and follow the track through the woods for a short distance

The track leads gently upwards to the left towards a gate

Go through the gate and aim left towards a prominent tree that is close by the ridge wall

The prominent tree seen here just right of centre is at the start of the foot path that will climb in parallel with the ridge wall

Looking back towards Place Fell from the track. The path you can see cutting along the side of the hill leads to the popular junction of Boredale Hause

The start of the foot path from the prominent tree, swings round left behind the small rock outcrop

With ever threatening skies we continue on along the path which gets closer to the ridge wall as height is gained

Higher up now and the path undulates as it climbs gradually

Looking across the A592 (way down below) towards Angletarn pikes

Go the opposite way of what the sign is saying !!! (unless of course you are returning back to the start)

Looking right across Dovedale towards the north east ridge of St Sunday Crag

Approximately half way along the path drops to a sty over a boundary wall. Over this the terrain becomes a little steeper and more rough

Looking back towards Ullswater just about visible

I’m told that this fellow is or will be an Emperor Moth – how true that is I don’t know, but there were quite a few of these around a big heather patch