Robinson, Hindscarth And Dale Head
THE day after the walk round Grassmoor I set out from Buttermere for these three mountains
. I had not then climbed any of the three, and although none of them quite reach 2,500 feet, they are quite interesting hills, and well worth doing, and the three together make a good day, although quite an easy one.
When I looked out of my bedroom window early, Red Pike was hidden in mist, and clouds were rushing over, but still it looked as though it might clear. The mist appeared to be of the white, dry variety, which is the least noxious sort, if you must have mist at all, and it seemed to be slowly lifting. There is always hope with a mist of that kind, and there is usually none at all with a heavy, wet, slate coloured mist hanging immovable, and smothering all the hills in its noisome pall.
After breakfast the mist had certainly lifted a good bit, and it looked fairly promising, and I set forth up the Keswick road, but left it very soon at the first convenient opportunity, and struck up a faint path which started 'the ascent of Buttermere Moss in a very halfhearted and indeterminate way, as though it could not make up its mind whether it were worth while to go on with the job or not, and before very long it apparently came to the conclusion that it was not worth while, and disappeared altogether. The Moss is an absolutely uninteresting grass mound of 1,725 feet, but from the top there is a lovely view of Buttermere and Crummock, and, anyhow, you have got to get either over it or round it, in order to attain Robinson, which from here looks very imposing for its height, which is only 2,417 feet.
From this side it looks only a big grass mound, but there is quite a respectable amount of rock on the summit ridge, and there is also a good bit on the northern face. Halfway up I almost walked into a tiny spring, nearly dry, but not quite, of beautifully clear, icy cold water. It was too early for lunch, but I drank a little and filled up my flask, and afterwards was very glad that I had done so, for I never saw any more running water while I was on the hills. It was a very dry season, and during the next two hours I passed a lot of watercourses that were bone dry.
I did not stop at the summit of Hindscarth more than a minute or two. There is a very fine view down the Newlands valley, and Eel Crags over the way and the north face of Dale Head looked grand, but clouds were now coming over fast, and there was just a hint of rain in the wind, and I was rather afraid that bad weather was coming. If it did, I wanted to get to Dale Head, and off it, or at least on the way, and set in the right direction, before rain and mist came. Dale Head is the highest of the three hills and by far the most interesting of them. It is also the most complicated, and I knew practically nothing about it. To find my way from anyone of the three hills to the next one would be easy enough, even in a thick mist, but it might possibly not be so easy, to find my way down from the summit of Dale Head to the Honister Pass, if bad weather came on before I got to the top and could see my bearings. And I did not want to descend to Rosthwaite, or to the head of the upper Newlands Valley.
by: Adrian Vultur
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