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​13th December 2009 - A Fairfield Horseshoe

Walk Details

Distance walked: 10.4 miles

Total ascent: 3452 ft

OS map used: OL7 - The English Lakes, South-eastern area & OL5 - The English Lakes, North-eastern area

Time taken: 6 hrs

Route description: Ambleside-Nook Lane-Low Sweden Bridge-Low Pike-High Pike-Dove Crag-Hart Crag-Fairfield-Great Rigg-Heron Pike-Nab Scar-Rydal Hall-Rydal Park-Ambleside


A walk around the Fairfield Horseshoe done in an anticlockwise direction. It was a bitterly cold day with the ground frozen solid which made for easy going but it was freezing in the strong breeze.

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Loughrigg Fell as I start the climb up to Low Pike
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Windermere from Sweden Crag
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The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags and Bowfell from Sweden Crag
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and again, but now from Low Pike
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Windermere from Low Pike
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Windermere from High Pike
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​Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells with Heron Pike on the other side of the horseshoe in the foreground
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The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells
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Zooming in on the Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells
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On the summit of Dove Crag. The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells in the distance.
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Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells, Great Gable, Pillar and the High Stile range in the distance
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Windermere on the left and Coniston Water on the right
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High Street and the Ill Bell ridge in view
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and a bit further round to the north, High Raise, Rampshill Head, High Street and Caudale Moor
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Sunshine on Place Fell above Patterdale
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On Hart Crag now. The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells in the distance.
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High Street and Caudale Moor
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Windermere from Hart Crag
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Fairfield ahead
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Place Fell and the fells around Patterdale
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High Raise and High Street with cloud from Fairfield
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High Street, the Ill Bell ridge and Red Screes
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Cofa Pike and St. Sunday Crag
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The view down Deepdale to the far eastern fells
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Helvellyn
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Pillar, the High Stile range and the northwestern fells in the distance
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Bowfell, the Scafells, Great Gable, Pillar and the High Stile range
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The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells
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Windermere and Coniston Water
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On the summit of Great Rigg
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Seat Sandal and Helvellyn
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Great Gable, Pillar, the High Stile range and the northwestern fells
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Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells, Great Gable and Pillar
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The view down the ridge to Heron Pike
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The view back up the ridge to Great Rigg, Fairfield and Hart Crag from Heron Pike
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Looking across to the Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells and the Langdale Pikes
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The last shot of the day from Nab Scar looking across Grasmere

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