30th August 2008 - A Newlands Horseshoe
Walk Details
Distance walked: 8.9 miles
Total ascent: 3439 ft
OS map used: OL4 - The English Lakes, North-western area
Time taken: 6.5 hrs
Route description: Chapel Bridge-Low High Snab-High Snab Bank-Robinson-Littledale Edge-Dale Head-Dalehead Tarn-High Spy-Blea Crag-Maiden Moor-Hause Gate-Chapel Bridge
A rather murky day for this walk above the Newlands valley.
From where I parked at Chapel Bridge I made my way past Newlands church to Low High Snab farm to climb Robinson by High Snab Bank. After reaching Robinson I walked across Littledale Edge to Dale Head. It was then a descent to Dalehead Tarn, across High Spy and Maiden Moor before heading back to Chapel Bridge from Hause Gate.
Total ascent: 3439 ft
OS map used: OL4 - The English Lakes, North-western area
Time taken: 6.5 hrs
Route description: Chapel Bridge-Low High Snab-High Snab Bank-Robinson-Littledale Edge-Dale Head-Dalehead Tarn-High Spy-Blea Crag-Maiden Moor-Hause Gate-Chapel Bridge
A rather murky day for this walk above the Newlands valley.
From where I parked at Chapel Bridge I made my way past Newlands church to Low High Snab farm to climb Robinson by High Snab Bank. After reaching Robinson I walked across Littledale Edge to Dale Head. It was then a descent to Dalehead Tarn, across High Spy and Maiden Moor before heading back to Chapel Bridge from Hause Gate.
Route map
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On High Snab Bank and a look back down into the Newlands valley
The same view as I reach the summit of Robinson
Looking across Littledale Edge to Fleetwith Pike and Great Gable
Scope End and Maiden Moor
Crummock Water and Loweswater from Robinson
High Stile and Red Pike
Cloud swirling around Great Gable but Kirk Fell is clear
Grasmoor, Wandope, Crag Hill & Sail
On the summit of Dale Head looking to Bowfell, Esk Pike, the Scafells and Great Gable
Hindscarth with Grasmoor, Crag Hill, Sail and Grisedale Pike behind
Eel Crags and the summit of High Spy
The Helvellyn range just visible through the murk
The classic view of the Newlands valley from Dale Head
Looking back to Dale Head from High Spy
Helvellyn and the Dodds beyond High Seat and the central ridge
Looking along High Spy's summit to Skiddaw
Borrowdale from the top of Blea Crag..
and Derwent Water
Maiden Moor and Skiddaw
The Newlands valley from Maiden Moor
The view towards Cat Bells and Skiddaw
and a better view before I head back down into Newlands