Kidsty Pike

Kidsty Pike ( left) from the west. In the middle Haweswater is to recognize

Kidsty Pike is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains mentioned ( fur ) in the northern English Lake District National Park and is assigned to the Far Eastern Fells.

The author Alfred Wainwright led his Coast to Coast Walk across the Kidsty Pike as the highest point of this trek across the British Isles.

Name

The name derives from the Old Norse you names kith = young goat, stigr = path and pik = summit summit as the goat path.

Topography

Kidsty Pike is located on the ridge, the west of Haweswater Reservoir by the former village of Mardale Head to Rampsgill passes and valleys Riggindale rampage and separates.

A short plateau leads west to the Straits of Riggindale. Here to climb steep slopes impassable to 400 meters deeper Hayeswater in a valley opening to the northwest into Patterdale; to the south there is a connection to the mountain High Street, to the north can be reached via the spell Patterdale and the Boredale after Howtown on Ullswater.

While the north side has a relatively low slope, the south side falls over jagged rocks and scree slopes steeply into the 500 m lower Riggindale.

Comments

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Cumbria
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Lake District