Todays permitted exercise!

[Mike T]

I remember discussing this a few months back, direct route up the valley to Fairfield, and remarking that i'd definitely seem it mentioned somewhere.

Today I was reading Wainwright On The Lakeland Mountain Passes.... and lo-and-behold, a chapter titled Hart Crag Col suggest a very direct (if pathless and steep) route from Rydal to Patterdale.

Although this is my favourite of his books (with the exception of the Pictorial Guides), there are some unusual choices for passes that he felt deserve a chapter...

Carlside Col
Goats Hause
Hart Crag Col
High Tove (not a pass but admittedly a quick way from Watendlath to Thirlmere)

Another book ordered! - to be more accurate, being hunted down.