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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 6mls (9.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 2,202ft (671m) | |
| Time: | 4½ hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Moderate) |
Route outline for walk c341:
- Mardale Head - Haweswater Reservoir - The Rigg - Swine Crag (Riggindale) - Heron Crag (Riggindale) - Eagle Crag (Riggindale) - Rough Crag (Riggindale) - Caspel Gate - Riggindale Crag - Long Stile - High Street - Rough Crag (Riggindale) - Eagle Crag (Riggindale) - Heron Crag (Riggindale) - Swine Crag (Riggindale) - Dudderwick - The Rigg - Mardale Head.
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
 2 English Mountains |
 2 Wainwrights |
 2 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
The highest point of this walk is High Street at 828m (2717ft). High Street is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (30th highest in England, 59th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 25). High Street is also known as an English Nuttall (37th in England, 69th in England & Wales). High Street is classified as a Marilyn (11th highest in England, 344th highest in the UK).
Completing this walk also take you to the top of Rough Crag (Riggindale), 628m (2061ft). Rough Crag (Riggindale) is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (161st highest in England, 280th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. ). Rough Crag (Riggindale) is also known as an English Nuttall (219th in England, 382nd in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of Eagle Crag, 525m (1723ft). Eagle Crag is classified as a Wainwright (No. 160).
For more details about what constitutes a Mountain and Mountain & Hill Classifications see: Peaks & Mountains.
For more details about peak bagging and how to record your achievements see: Peak Bagging.
This walk is on Ordnance Survey Maps:
| OS Explorer Map OL5 | |
| 1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers) |
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| OS Landranger Map 90 | |
| 1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers) |
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c341 High Street via Rough Crag (Riggindale) from Mardale Head
In no particular order . . .
Blea Water with mist still shrouding High Street beyond from Rough Crag (Riggindale) summit in the snow
Mere Gill, Greenhow Gill and Footmoorgate Gill 'streaming' into Greenup Gill beyond Pounsey Crag (far right) as seen from Eagle Crag
Rough Crag beyond Blea Water from above Blea Water Crag between High Street and Mardale Ill Bell
*Hayeswater with the Fairfield and Helvellyn Ridges beyond from High Street
Haweswater Reservoir, The Rigg with Branstree (Artlecrag Pike) beyond from near Castle Crag
*Crinkle Crags featuring Crinkle Crags (Long Top), Gunson Knott & Crinkle Crags (South Top) (left), Bow Fell (Bowfell) (centre) and The Langdale Pikes (right) from Great Langdale
High Street, The Rigg and Rough Crag (Riggindale) across Haweswater Reservoir
Overlooking the ruins of Riggindale Farm with Haweswater Reservoir beyond from the lower slopes of Rough Crag (Riggindale)
On top of Causey Pike with Scar Crags, Sail (Derwent Fells) and Crag Hill (Eel Crag) behind
High Street (behind the tree). Straits of Riggindale, Head of Riggindale Beck and Kidsty Pike from Haweswater Reservoir
My wife Terry and two youngest daughters Emily & Elizabeth on their 1st Wainwright (High Street) taken on a Bank Holiday Sunday a couple of years ago
The Old Man of Coniston (left) and Swirl How (right) from Wetherlam summit
Steeple and Long Crag with Crag Fell (sunlit in the distance), Ennerdale Water and Great Borne from Pillar
The Rigg with Rough Crag (Riggindale) and High Street beyond from near Rowantreethwaite Beck, Haweswater Reservoir
The Rigg and Haweswater Reservoir from the lower slopes of Branstree (Artlecrag Pike)
*High Street, Blea Water, Rough Crag (Riggindale), Riggindale, Kidsty Pike and Haweswater Reservoir from The Rigg
Looking back to Kidsty Howes and Haweswater from Rough Crag (Riggindale) summit in the snow
Artlecrag Pike (left), Gatescarth Pass (centre) and Harter Fell (Mardale) (right) from Swine Crag in the snow
Artlecrag Pike (left), Gatescarth Pass (centre) and Harter Fell (Mardale) (right) from Swine Crag in the snow
A break in the wall offers this view down towards Hartsop from the Straits of Riggindale
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