All the Wainwrights: Robinson and Hindscarth

Again, as so often recently, we were lucky enough to get the last parking spot in the small car park, this time at Little Town in the Newlands Valley

Today our walk took us up Robinson and then on to Hindscarth before descending back to the valley. We would leave Dale Head for another day.

The ascent of Robinson was interesting with the well documented 3 rocky steps, They have been described and 'no problem' to 'a bit of a scramble'. We fall into the latter group. The first and third were indeed 'no problem' but we had difficulty on the middle one as Elspeth was unable to stretch her legs high enough to scramble up the short rock face, However we found an alternative route bypassing the section finding a small path circumventing it down on the left hand side.

We reached the summit easily after this and then descended to Littledale Edge to get out the the cool wind, for lunch. The view across the Buttermere valley and Honister were magnificent. The high fell of Pillar and the Gables coming in and out of thick cloud, the lower tops of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike etc easily identified.

Next stop was Hindscarth with again magnificent, if not better, views whichever way you looked.

The descent north down the ridge of Hindscarth was a delight. Some concentration needed initially and very much so at the end when the gradient increased but overall wonderful with the views up the Newlands valley and the heather, not quite out yet, carpeting both sides of the path.

Time 6 hrs 30 mns

Grade Excellent

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