High Pike (Scandale)

High Pike (Scandale)

Infobox Mountain
Name = High Pike
Photo = High_Pike_from_Low_Pike.jpg
Caption = Looking up to High Pike from Low Pike.
Location = Cumbria, ENG
Range = Lake District, Eastern Fells
Elevation = 656 m (2,152 ft)
Grid_ref_UK = NY373088
Topographic
OS "Landranger" 90 OS "Explorer" 7
Prominence = c 5 m
Parent peak = Dove Crag
Listing = Wainwright

High Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, located five kilometres north of Ambleside. Situated in the Eastern Fells, it can be confused with another Lake District High Pike in the Northern Fells. High Pike reaches a height of 656 metres (2152 feet), it is sometimes referred to as Scandale Fell, although this name really only applies to the high ground at the head of Scandale.

Topography

High Pike is an impressive sight when viewed from the south around High Sweden bridge near Ambleside, it has the look of a remote peak standing alone with cliffs falling away from the summit on its eastern side. However in reality it is just a slight rise on the long southern ridge of Dove Crag with only about five metres of prominence which prevents it even qualifying as a “Nuttall”, nevertheless both Alfred Wainwright and Bill Birkett mention the fell in their books on the Lakeland Fells.

Geology

The crest of the ridge consists of the volcaniclastic laminated claystone and siltstone of the Esk Pike Formation. Beneath is the dacitic welded lapilli-tuff of the Lincomb Tarns Formation.British Geological Survey: 1:50,000 series maps, "England & Wales Sheet 38": BGS (1998)]

Ascents

High Pike is often climbed as part of the Fairfield horseshoe walk, the ascent from Ambleside leaves the centre of the town northerly and goes by Low Sweden Bridge to reach the open fell where a sizeable dry stone wall is followed firstly over Low Pike and then down to a depression at 480 m (1,575&nbsp:ft) before climbing to the flat grassy summit of High Pike with its cairn standing on the edge of crags overlooking Scandale.

View

Much of the view from the top is curtailed by higher fells but there is a view of the Far Eastern Fells over the Scandale Pass and an excellent view of Ambleside and the head of Windermere.

References

* A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Eastern Fells, Alfred Wainwright, ISBN 0-7112-2454-4
* Complete Lakeland Fells, Bill Birkett, ISBN 0-00-713629-3


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