Martindale Round and a wild camp
DATE 18-19.06.2021 | DISTANCE approx 22KM approx | HIGHEST POINT 802M
Posted by Matt | Filed under Lake District
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Recently we bought a huge map of the lakeland fells to stick up in the house and use drawing pins to highlight the wainwrights we have done and the ones we still have to visit. This map looms over us in the dining room and makes easy planning for future hikes. My problem is that i like to squeeze in as many as i can into each hike. It's a recent goal but it's becoming addictive. This walk today was a big one so we broke it into two with a wild camp. Now i have to say that its been i while since i last did a wild camp and i had forgotten how tiring it is to walk uphill with a fully loaded 70 litre pack. next time i wild camp i need to make it a short hike rather than a quest to hit many wainwrights. 2 of which we dropped towards the end as we were shattered. Yeah i regret it now but I've already been back to the map and drawn up a route to catch those two summits along with some others nearby.
OUr lake district map for plotting routes and hitting all the wainwrights. find it on amazon
St martin's church in martindale. the start of our overnight hike
the route ahead had us turn right and climb behind the rear of winter crag farmhouse
looking down into martindale
ascending winter crag loaded up with camping gear
heading up winter crag and howstead brow
Ullswater in the distance blocked by hallin fell
heading for beda fell
LOW BROCK CRAG
BEDA FELL SUMMIT
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NAB, REST DODD, BUCK CRAG AND ANGLE TARN CRAGS
ZOOOMING IN ON ULLSWATER IN THE DIRECTION OF POOLEY BRIDGE
CONTINUING ON APPROX 1 MILE TO ANGLE TARN. eARLY EVENING IN THE SUMMER HAS TO BE THE BEST TIME TO BE IN THE HILLS. I DONT GET TO DO THIS AT THIS TIME VERY OFTEN.
LOOKING DOWN TO GLENRIDDING
CATHERINE ON ANGLE TARN CRAGS. ANOTHER WAINWRIGHT SUMMITTED.
LOOKING BACK TO PLACE FELL
BROTHERS WATER. LAST TIME I WAS THERE WAS AFTER A NIGHT IN PRIESTS HOLE CAVE. I REMEMBER BEING VERY TIRED AFTER A NIGHT FENDING OFF BATS.
ANGLE TARN. OUR WILD CAMP SPOT OF THE NIGHT TURNED OUT TO BE QUITE POPULAR. I COUNTED APPROX 10 TENTS BUT WE WERE ALL SPACED OUT ENOUGH TO BARELY EVEN HEAR EACH OTHER .
SAUSAGE AND EGG ROLLS. HIGHLY RATE THIS JETBOIL SKILLET. IT REALLY IS NON-STICK!
HERE'S OUR PITCH, RAISED ABOUT 8 FT ABOVE THE WATER
FIRST TIME USING THE MSR HUBBA HUBBA NX-2. iT'S EXTREMELY LIGHT BUT ALSO SPACIOUS. I'M SURPRISED BY HOW MUCH HEADROOM THIS SUPERLIGHT TENT HAS. I wouldn't have managed this hike if i was carrying my old coleman phact x2 tent.
next morning after a reasonably comfortable night sleep.
setting off for part 2 of our martindale round
angle tarn from brock crags
grey crag
brock crags summit cairn
another view of the handsome grey crag
looking down into martindale. moving on from here we traversed the side of rest dodd and dropped onto the nab
onto the saddle approaching the nab.
you would wish the summit of the nab would have a better cairn but there wasn't many rocks around here. drop one off if you visit. this isn't the easiest summit to get to due to there being limited open access from martindale.
down into martindale from the nab.
heading back now to rest dodd. this is going to hurt.
the steep climb up onto rest dodd was pretty exhausting with all the camping gear. I celebrated with a bakewell flapjack (My favourite)
looking down from the knott. helvellyn range in the distance and catstycam just below the cloud line
rampsgill head
down into martindale from rampsgill head
high raise
on the roman road towards red crag
looking across to rest dodd and the nab
we descended after wether hill choosing to cut out loadpot hill and this one ahead, steel knotts. we were very tired.
passing brownthwaite crag but dropping down to martindale instead of climbing steel knotts ahead. we will see you next time steel knotts!
a view into martindale and admiring a good portion of the round that we traversed in the distance.
back down into martindale and the end of a 15 mile hike with an overnight stop. next wild camp will have a little less walking