Lake District
24km/15 miles 8 hours
1
NY469245 Cross the river then turn right at a mini roundabout by the church (High Street). This becomes Roe Head Lane, then continue up a stony track for about 1km to a waymarker/ cairn. Now fork right towards Howgill.
2
NY482222 Fork right at The Cockpit and ford a small stream. About 150m beyond this, fork left onto a faint grassy path (easily missed) and up Barton Fell. Rise to the left of Aik Beck then gently rightwards at a boundary marker/cairn.
3
NY460197 Join a track from Arthur’s Pike and continue up the broad, rounded flank of Loadpot Hill. At ‘Lambert Lad’ (boundary stone) the modern summit path is the better route.
4
NY457178 Rejoin the Roman way by a stone shelter cairn, then over Wether Hill, dropping gently right of the vague ridgeline and down to a tumbledown drystone wall. Stay left of the wall for about 200m then cross it, following the rightmost path of two as it veers away from the wall then parallel to a wire fence. Go over Red Crag and along the grassy ridgeline.
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NY450146 When the fence kinks left to join a drystone wall, the path veers more gradually towards the wall then crosses a stile. Rise up some peat haggs, then head south with a brief detour left to High Raise’s summit.
6
NY448134 Descend roughly south-west to a saddle, passing a small tarn. Fork right onto Rampsgill and veer right of some small tarns as you reach the summit area and a flat-topped ridge. Fork towards a broad ridge with a zigzagging wall rising up its left flank. The path meets the rugged edge and zigzags beside it down to a wall line on the Straits of Riggindale.
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NY439122 Turn left beside the wall on a wide, stony path. Cross the wall line at the col (in low visibility the wall is a handrail onto High Street’s broad summit plateau and leads directly to the summit trig point).
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NY440110 Stay with the wall line south (passing a path junction) to a corner. Bend right with the wall, then across to the prominent beacon of Thornthwaite Crag. Descend roughly south-east following an intermittent line of rusty fenceposts to the edge overlooking Kentmere Reservoir.
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NY433094 After about 100m along the ridgeline path, fork right at a small cairn onto a faint trod through grass, which veers away from the ridgeline towards the edge. Fork right as the main path returns to view near to a col, descending Scot Rake in an almost straight line to the Hagg Gill valley, with an occasional steeper zig right.
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NY428079 A faint boggy quad track via bracken near a gate leads to a grassy path/ track running for roughly 1.5km along the valley bottom below The Tongue. Just after the track bends sharp right with a wall line, fork left to descend a waymarked path through pasture. At Hagg Bridge, turn left along a tarmac track and down past Ing Bridge.
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NY416039 About 1km after the bridge, bend right with the road as a bridleway continues on. Fork right onto a footpath through a farm gate and up past houses to a short track leading rightwards to the road. The bus stop is over the road on the left.