Lane heading out of Rosthwaite.

 A touch of "Lambing Live". Herdwick/Texel cross lambs get a helping hand out into the warm Spring sunshine.

Crossing the very low beck.

Grange Fell from the path up to Johnny's Wood.

 And Great Crag from slightly higher.

 Castle Crag and Kings How from the slopes of High Doat.

 Great End and Borrowdale from High Doat.

Glaramara. High Doat is a super location for hill spotting with plenty of soft grass for a picnic or a snooze.

Grey Knotts and the Honister Pass road.

Castle Crag from my crossing route up to Rigghead Quarries.

Butterwort and Common Sundew. Not rare plants but interesting to see them in close proximity especially as they are both insect eaters, you can even see the trapped flies on the sticky green leaves of the Butterwort.

Across to Ullscarf.

Investigating Rigghead quarries, there are many level entrances here and all needed checking out so that I got the correct one for the drawing (this isnt it)

Old ruins at Rigghead. Hindscarth through the gap.

Rigg Head and down to Newlands.

Launchy Tarn and a distant Helvellyn range.

High Spy over Launchy Tarn.

Bypassing High Scawdel we took the round route towards Dale Head.

Quarries near Yew Crag where I ticked off another level entrance as a reference.

Buttermere from the quarries.

Now back on the route to Dale Head with super views back to Bowfell round to Great Gable.

Dale Head summit with its fine cairn.

Descending towards Dale Head tarn there are fine views down into Newlands valley.

Dale Head tarn.

From the tarn its a simple path up to High Spy.

The route to High Spy with the big hills behind us.

The team on High Spy summit.

It was turning out to be a very pleasant late afternoon. the hard work was now done so it was simple ridge walk north.

Eel Crags on High Spy.

The view back to High Spy summit.

Once on Blea Crag there is a fine view over Maiden Moor to Skiddaw

Maiden Moor summit, often bypassed by walkers and not even at the site which AW rated as the summit.

Evening light on Catbells

Zeta takes in the evening sun.

Bailey on look-out.

This was my route of ascent, down to Grange from Narrow Moor. No path here just a steep grassy slope as I headed towards Ellers.

Eagle Crag and Sergeant Man in the last light of the day.

Having found my last two references of the day all that was left was to walk the route from Grange back to Rosthwaite. Usually this is a popular route but this evening I saw no other walkers, in fact since leaving Rosthwaite I had met just one walker just as I started the walk. The advantages of a late start.