Friday was fine and sunny with the occasional haze throughout the day. Our objective was to drive to the car park at the end of Haweswater and head up to Blea tarn where a scramble leads from the lake onto the summit ridge of High St.
A pleasant walk up the valley leads into Blea Water Combe where we saw our first Wheatears of the year.
The scramble is Blea Water crag gill grade 2** we omitted the 2nd pitch which would have been very wet and greasy but everything else was passable.
Overall it is a worthwhile outing lots of scrambling in the gill and its subsidiary overflows.
At the top of the Gill there is a short rocky ridge section to finish off the route. A further 20mins or so took us to the summit of High St and lunch.
Our next objective was a descent of Long stile ridge which overlooks Riggindale, which is famous for holding the only English Golden Eagle!
After plenty of stopping and scanning of the valley we were fortunate to disturb the Eagle from a rocky outcrop which gave us fantastic views down to less than 50m as it flew out into the valley.
Once back in the valley we had afternoon coffee in the Haweswater Hotel.
Day 2 took us round to Grasmere, we had decided on a route onto Fairfield via Stone Arthur and Great Rigg
From Fairfield we dropped down to Grisedale Tarn and decided to include Seat Sandal as our final summit.
A steady ridge decent took us back to the A591 to finish another cracking weekend.
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