High Street and Kidsty Pike

Toady we chose to do a walk over at Haweswater. Our tap water comes from here, yet this is the first time we have visited it in about 10 years, and what a fabulous day we choose. Wall to wall sunshine, but not too hot. Ideal!

We parked at Mardale head and started with a gentle slope that gradually becomed more rocky and more steep as it heads over Swine Crag, Heron crag and Eagle crag

Before going over Rough Crag and Riggindale Crag, all the time Haweswater is in view behind us

And the Creature From The Black Lagoon is in view in front of us

As we head up Riggindale crag Blea Water looks dark and menacing below us. Blea water means Black water, and this is one of many tarns given this name. The shadows of the fells making them live up to the name in all cases I suspect, althoug for a brief moment, we were lucky enough to see this one with  a bit of sunshine on it

The final serious climb of the walk is up Long Stile, the ridge in the middle of this picture

Which leads us nicely up to Racecourse Hill in time for lunch. Aptly named as we are friendly with Jay through the fact that I ride her husbands Racehorsesr

From here we carry on across High Street, through the Head of Riggindale and onto Kidsty Pike, before descending Kidsty Howes and returning to Mardale Head.

There are photos of the rest of this walk, but having been struggling with the camera for ages, this walk will probably be one of it's final outings, and whilst I have messed about (somewhat unsuccesfully ) to try to improve the colour and exposure of these pictures, the rest really are awful so will not published!o