Lake District Walks | Haystacks to Fleetwith Pike

[Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] Mountain Chums me again today we're doing a bit of a classic [Music] Pike anti-clockwise [Music] it's the end of September 2022 and if we've been here a little bit earlier in the year we'd have seen Tom Cruise jumping out of helicopters along here because they've been filming the new mission of Hospital film [Music] we're not doing that today which is probably for the best because I imagine that's a bit noisy we start out of the car park at Gates golf Farm and head over to Peggy's Bridge and then up scarth Gap pass or pass and then up to the crinkles of Haystacks the best fell in the Lakes not my words the words of Alfred Wainwright it's a stunning day it's a little chilly it's about six seven degrees so far but I imagine it's going to warm up giving the blue skies ahead directly behind me is Robinson and then further around there hindsgarth from the Newlands round you can watch here should you wish [Music] oh I think this must be Peggy's Bridge [Music] foreign [Music] making pretty good progress it helps that Haystacks isn't the highest till in the legs I mean obviously but it's under 2000 feet [Music] the way off Fleet with pie does look quite steep and you know terrifying but I'm assured by Mark riches that it's actually a lovely way off and one of the best views in the lake so I'm going to trust mark [Music] thank you [Music] this is the scars Gap pass you're welcome with Scott's Gap actually off to the left pretty soon we break left and head on up to haystacks the other side of the pass you go down into black sail and to the youth hostel there there are a good number of cans all the way up here which I think is probably quite important it's probably quite often Misty it's a good Guide to the way up aha the return of the lovely steps not the band [Music] well just before it disappeared that was haystacks [Music] just coming into view over there I think the back of pillar black sail pass and a little bit we should be able to see if that could great Gable [Music] obviously this can to get up Haystacks you turn left to go down into black cell straight on and down but we're going up shall we [Music] foreign [Music] this may look like we're going straight towards a cliff but this is a zig or depending on your preference zag followed by the opposite of that [Music] [Applause] okay that's sort of leads you to a cliff but it's got stepped it's fine slow and steady [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] going to go by the Shine On The Rocks I think it's straight up and then left at some point let's find out [Music] here we go foreign [Music] ahead [Music] I guess we go straight up foreign [Music] too much [Music] [Applause] [Music] and again up foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] there we go then the taste ax 597 meters 1959 feet famous of course as wainwright's last resting place and also his favorite feltop he said for beauty variety and interesting detail for sheer Fascination and unique individuality the summit area of Haystacks is supreme this is in fact the best felt top of all and it's very hard to argue from Haystacks we go east towards Hollister and then make our way around up to the top of Fleet with Pike after paying a little visit to a normal town and himself [Music] [Music] this is Wainwright slightly self-contradictually named innominate tan ironically before Wainwright named it as having no name it had a name it was called loafton but it is now probably will forever be in omelette to turn famously of course Wayne Wright's ashes are scattered here in Memoirs of a fell Walker Wayne wrote said all I ask for at the end is a last long resting place by the side of innominate Tan on Haystacks a quiet place a lonely place I shall go to it for the last time and be carried someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone and if you dear reader should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing a Stacks in the years to come please treat it with respect it might be me [Music] thank you it's a very lovely set of steps I've become quite the connoisseur [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you oh here comes the sun if you fancy it'd be really nice if you give the old subscribe button a click maybe a like as well good and sense of enormous well-being this is one of the ways down little Wiggly path that takes you back down into buttermere there's another one on the other side of the Gill near job's Hut all good ways down potentially easier than the one we're going to be doing keep your options open see how you feel [Music] with Pike of course is synonymous with a honest of mine which is now a tourist attraction but it's also still a working mine and you can see the spoils of it all the way over the side of the Hill [Music] thank you [Music] thank you absolutely stunning view across to haystacks and pillar and Captain Kirk fell now then the plan at this point is to follow the put path that's marked on the OS map according to the OS map the footpath goes up north behind Dub's Hut and then goes east but in reality there's not a great deal of path on the ground so you might be better off just following the road around because as you'll see we will join up with it in a bit I wouldn't ordinarily recommend going off the path but this is very clearly a path and the other footballs it was going a long way down and then along the way back up again and frankly it's getting too old to that [Music] we're making some progress not too far away from the summit keep an eye on the path around here because there are lots of mine shafts and mind related dangers [Music] from here you get bottom here comic water blows water away to the Irish sea I presume Scotland off in the distance [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] there you go it's Fleet with Pike 648 meters 2126 feet from here we go straight down Fleet with Edge along the ridge of Fleet with Pike down to Gates Garth Farm [Music] foreign here we go so this descent is probably quite steep in places Wainwright warns that every path is there for a reason so don't stray from it the view is really quite spectacular I just need a rock which is very much a bad thing to do on a descent like this but there we go fingers crossed I won't be called on to use my knees at any point [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign ly thank you [Music] with all these bits initially they can look a little intimidating but when you get to them break them down into small pieces they're not that bad I'm really quite enjoying this been so lucky with the weather I'm not sure this would be quite as much fun in the rain yeah I might just take a moment to sit here that is one of those sections I imagine is easier going up than it is coming down can't have everything can we [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] well other than the last bit there's a lot of down we've got to get down it's over 2000 feet what can you do [Music] success it doesn't help like a massive cut-offing feet take up a lot of a step [Music] one of the big warnings about this descent is when you get to the snout of Fleetwood Edge you have to hang right if you go straight on you will be in a world of bother this is where you take a right to go further would be foolish [Music] foreign [Music] foreign this is known as Fanny Mercer's cross which is quite a landmark in the area it has a little inscription on it which says erected by friends of Fanny Mercer accidentally killed 1887. Tony murter was a young servant girl who worked for Mr Bowden Smith who's a school teacher from rugby and he was here with his family and servants on holiday apparently she was descending the fell with some friends lost to balance and fell about 20 feet she was taken down to gatesgarth farm where she died from a serious head injury just below the cross there is a collection box for cockermouth Mountain Rescue so if you're in the area given that it's apparently empty daily I would suggest you make it worth their while by sticking a few quid in [Music] foreign [Music] to finish with I have enjoyed today enormously I would strongly recommend that you sent down Fleet with Edge thank you very much to Mark Richards for his recommendation without which I probably would not have done it maybe save it for a good day though imagine it's not a great deal of fun in the rain from here I can actually see the car park so not far at all well that's about it for me thank you very much for watching if indeed you still are if you've enjoyed this do please like And subscribe and join us once again hopefully for another Wainwright walk stay safe [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] left and go up the scarf something something stop me from getting too technical I mean this is sort of brutally right I don't know who I'm talking to this isn't going to be in the film might be in the bloopers this is Mission just about feasible

Channel: Lake District Films

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 09 2022