30th August 2010 - Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag
Walk Details
Distance walked: 8.9 miles
Total ascent: 3282 ft
OS map used: OL5 - The English Lakes, North-eastern area
Time taken: 7 hrs
Route description: Patterdale-A592-Deepdale Bridge-Hartsop above How-Hart Crag-Fairfield-Cofa Pike-St. Sunday Crag-Thornhow End-Patterdale
After setting out from Patterdale I walked down the road to Deepdale Bridge and then walked along the ridge of Hartsop-above-How to Hart Crag. From Hart Crag I walked across to Fairfield and then St. Sunday Crag before making my way back down to Patterdale.
Total ascent: 3282 ft
OS map used: OL5 - The English Lakes, North-eastern area
Time taken: 7 hrs
Route description: Patterdale-A592-Deepdale Bridge-Hartsop above How-Hart Crag-Fairfield-Cofa Pike-St. Sunday Crag-Thornhow End-Patterdale
After setting out from Patterdale I walked down the road to Deepdale Bridge and then walked along the ridge of Hartsop-above-How to Hart Crag. From Hart Crag I walked across to Fairfield and then St. Sunday Crag before making my way back down to Patterdale.
Route map
Patterdale and Place Fell from the start of the ridge of Hartsop-above-How
Arnison Crag and Place Fell
Hart Crag and Fairfield ahead
Place Fell
Far Eastern Fells
Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield with the summit of Hartsop-above-How ahead
Place Fell
On Hartsop-above-How summit
The view across to High Street
Nearly up to the summit of Hart Crag with a view back along the ridge
The valley of Deepdale below
On the summit of Hart Crag with a view across to the Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags and Bowfell
High Street
Place Fell and the far eastern fells
The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells. The fell in front is Great Rigg.
Windermere
Helvellyn and St. Sunday Crag
The Coniston fells, Crinkle Crags and Bowfell from Fairfield
Windermere and Coniston Water
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, the Scafells, Great Gable and Pillar
Great Gable, Pillar, the High Stile range and the northwestern fells in the distance
St. Sunday Crag
Cofa Pike and St. Sunday Crag
Helvellyn
Across to the far eastern fells
Dollywaggon Pike, Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn
Deepdale
St. Sunday Crag from Cofa Pike
Grisedale Tarn
On St. Sunday Crag summit
The view across to High Street
The far eastern fells with the North Pennines in the far distance
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and the Scafells in the distance
Red Screes, Dove Crag and Hart Crag
Ullswater and Place Fell
High Street and the far eastern fells
Ullswater and Place Fell from St. Sunday Crag
Ullswater on the way down into Patterdale..