| Hartsop Dodd - Route One |
| Start - Hartsop NY 409 131 | Distance - 1 mile | Ascent - 1,430 feet | Time - 1 hour : 10 minutes |
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| Hartsop car park at the start of the walk |
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| Gray Crag from the gate at the end of the car park |
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| The route to Hartsop Dodd turns right from the gate (signed for Pasture Beck) and descends to cross Walker Bridge |
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| Looking back towards Brock Crags |
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| Gray Crag from the track to the valley of Pasture Beck |
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| The Pasture Beck track is only followed for a few yards before switching back to climb beside an old grooved path which rises to a wall junction |
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| Looking back to Hartsop |
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| A stile in the wall junction gives access to the open fellside where a path leads up to a shoulder on the north ridge of Hartsop Dodd |
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| Looking over towards the summits of Birks and Arnison Crag |
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| The path leading up to the shoulder on the north ridge |
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| On gaining the shoulder Dove Crag comes into view |
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| The north ridge of Hartsop Dodd from the shoulder |
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| Looking over to Hayeswater Gill |
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| Brock Crags and Rest Dodd |
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| Patterdale and the head of Ullswater |
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| Brothers Water with St.Sunday Crag and Birks over the Hartsop-above-How ridge |
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| Dove Crag |
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| Continuing on the ascent of the north ridge, the path winds its way through a series of minor rocky outcrops. This section is the steepest part of the climb |
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| Looking over to Gray Crag |
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| Looking over to High Hartsop Dodd and Little Hart Crag |
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| Rest Dodd, High Raise, The Knott and Rampsgill Head across the north ridge of Gray Crag |
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| Looking down on Brothers Water from the north ridge |
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| Looking down on Hartsop from the north ridge |
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| Looking over towards Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield |
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| Rest Dodd, High Raise, Rampsgill Head and Gray Crag |
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| Eventually the angle of the ridge eases on reaching an old iron fence post. What appears to be a cairn on the summit ridge is actually the end of a wall |
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| Little Hart Crag and Dove Crag |
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| Looking down on the steepest part of the north ridge |
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| St. Sunday Crag and Birks in the middle distance over the Hartsop-above-How ridge |
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| A distant Coniston Old Man appears over Scandale Pass |
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| Rest Dodd, High Raise and Rampsgill Head across the north ridge of Gray Crag |
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| The end of the summit ridge wall |
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| Rest Dodd from the end of the summit ridge wall |
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| The summit cairn comes into view |
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| Ullswater from just below the summit of Hartsop Dodd |
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| Looking south west from the cairn, Caudale Moor, Red Screes over Middle Dodd with the Coniston fells in the distance over Low Pike and High Pike |
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| Looking north west, Dollywaggon Pike, St. Sunday Crag, Helvellyn, Catstycam, Raise, and Stybarrow Dodd form the horizon |
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| Wainwright regarded the wooden stake,set against the summit ridge wall, as the highest point of Hartsop Dodd. It's quite remarkable that it's still in place almost 60 years after he sketched it in his Pictorial Guide Hartsop Dodd - page 3 |
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| Looking north to Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes |
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| Beda Fell, Brock Crags and Rest Dodd |
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| High Raise, The Knott and Rampsgill Head over the north ridge of Gray Crag |
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| High Street over the summit ridge of Gray Crag |
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| The connecting ridge to Caudale Moor with Thornthwaite Crag on the left |
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| High Hartsop Dodd, Little Hart Crag and Dove Crag in the middle distance with the Coniston fells over Scandale Pass on the left |
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| Greenhow End, Hart Crag, Fairfield, Dollywaggon Pike and St. Sunday Crag form the horizon with the Hartsop-above- How ridge in the middle distance |
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