| High Hartsop Dodd - Route One |
| Start - Cow Bridge NY 402 134 | Distance - 2 miles | Ascent - 1,275 feet | Time - 1 hour : 25 minutes |
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| The small National Trust car park at Cow Bridge is the starting point for this walk |
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| A level track below Low Wood leads south alongside the side of Brothers Water |
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| Looking across to Gray Crag from the track |
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| The track below Low Wood |
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| Looking across Brothers Water to Kirkstone Pass |
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| High Hartsop Dodd comes into view as the track nears Hartsop Hall |
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| Hartsop Hall |
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| Passing the Hall the path crosses a simple bridge, signposted "footpath to Kirkstone Pass and Scandale Pass" It enters the pastures via a wall gate and heads directly towards the foot of the north ridge |
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| Looking back towards Hartsop Hall from the wall gate |
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| Near the end of the pasture several large boulders on the perimeter of an earthen embankment mark the site of an ancient settlement |
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| Dove Crag and Hart Crag from the earthen embankment |
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| Exit the pasture via a gate beside a barn. AW remarked on the symmetry between the pitch of its roof and the slopes of the dodd above it |
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| The ascent begins immediately above the barn |
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| Loooking back to Brothers Water from the lower slopes, note the earthworks of the ancient settlement to the left of the barn |
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| Halfway up the ridge a fence is crossed via a stile |
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| Looking across to Dove Crag and Hart Crag from the fence |
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| Looking back to Brothers Water from the fence stile |
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| Above the fence the ridge steepens as the path approaches a belt of crags |
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| Looking down the ridge from below the the crags |
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| St. Sunday Crag appears over the ridge of Hartsop-above-How |
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| Looking down the ridge from the top of the crags, these have been easily turned on their right edge |
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| Above the crags a ruined wall crosses the ridge which marks the end of the steepest part of the ascent |
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| Looking across to Dove Crag from the slope below the wall |
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| Crossing the wall and the final rise to the summit comes into view |
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| Looking down the ridge from the ruined wall |
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| A few stones gathered together mark the summit |
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| Brothers Water from just below the summit |
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| Looking along the connecting ridge to Little Hart Crag |
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| Looking across the crags of Black Brow to the tall cairn on High Bakestones |
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| Looking across the ridge of Stand Crags to Dove Crag and Hart Crag |
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| On the horizon from the left, Scrubby Crag on Fairfield and Dollywaggon Pike in the dip between Greenhow End and St. Sunday Crag |
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| St. Sunday Crag over Hartsop-above-How |
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| Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes |
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| Looking down to the Brotherswater Inn |
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