| Name: | Harter Fell (Mardale) |
| Hill number: | 2537 |
| Height: | 779m / 2556ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2528 High Street |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Topographical area: | EL06 Highstreet-arnside |
| SMC/RHB section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Eden (Carlisle), Kent |
| Watershed: | Morecambe Bay, St Bees Head to Ravenscar, Solway Firth |
| Class: | Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Wainwright, Birkett, Synge, Fellranger, Submarilyn, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,W,B,Sy,Fel,sMa,BL,Bg,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | NY 45970 09326 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 149.2m |
| Col: | 629.8m NY 45235 09592  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL5S OL7N |
| Observations: | cairn is built on largely hidden small outcrop of rock |
| Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica 530 Survey of Harter Fell (Mardale) (Final).doc |
| Comments: | height measured as 779.0m |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 1678 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| A long day with dad and Jennifer. Starting in Stockdale, climbing Great Howe, and continuing on to Grey Crag, heading North to Tarn Crag over the bog of Grey Crag Tarn. Continuing North to the coll, and taking the long slog up Selside Brow to the summit of Branstree, then turning East to follow the wall to Selside Pike, then retracing our steps and returning to Branstree, and continuing west to ascend Harter Fell, with some excellent views. Continuing South along the ridge took us over Kentmere Pike and Shipmann Knotts, and then dropping into Kentmere to meet mum at Green Quarter. | AJScourfield | 29/07/2024 |
| Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike and Shipman Knotts with Shaun <3 | P333ebz | 21/07/2024 |
| Kentmere Horseshoe 5th of 7. | NormanW | 12/07/2024 |
| Kentmere round clockwise very windy for first half | underhill | 02/05/2024 |
| J.T. and M.T. Kentmere Horseshoe, Trail magazine June '19 route. | MTansley | 28/04/2024 |
| J.T. and M.T. Kentmere Horseshoe, Trail magazine June '19 route. | J_tansley | 28/04/2024 |
| Loop from Sadgill up Harter Fell (30/03/2024 Grey Crag, Tarn Crag, Branstree, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts) | nat571 | 30/03/2024 |
| Highest point today. Patchy deep snow always tests the legs | Alphaville199 | 08/03/2024 |
| With Pops from Mardale Head car park. Very low cloud but no rain! little Harter fell, Harter Fell, The Knowe, Brown Howe, Kentmere Pike & Shipman Knotts. No views but lovely route, descended to Sandhills then back across Gatescarth Oass. 10.3 miles 3203 ft elevation. | nell1583 | 31/12/2023 |
| The Kentmere Horseshoe from Kentmere in an anticlockwise direction visiting 9 Wainwrights: Shipman Knots, Kentmere Pike, Harter Fell, Mardale Ill Bell, High Street, Thornthwaite Crag, Froswick. Ill Bell, and Yoke. A fine and partially sunny Boxing Day, with very fine snow showers. Certainly a nice change from heavy rain and storm force winds of recent days! 22km with 1200m ascent, taking 7h40m. | silverwolf_alan | 26/12/2023 |
| Mardale circuit. 4 of 9 | thekirkie pirate | 12/10/2023 |
| Around the Kentmere Horseshoe with L. Finally the damp dense blowing clouds had just lifted to spur us on up the fun steep rocky path from the fine wind shelter on Nan Bield col. Views N over what was eagle country until recently. Excellent read in Wild Fell by the manager of the RSPB project for Haweswater. He writes well of his botanising scrambles on the brooding inaccessible, damp cliffs of the N face of Harter Fell, where eagles nested in the 1960s until they they relocated to quieter Riggingdale having felt disturbed by too many tourists attracted to Mardale Head to stare at them from the car park! | Chris Pearson | 02/10/2023 |
| Longsleddale Horseshoe with Jim, Jus and Cat from the (limited!) parking at Sadgill, via Shipman Knotts, Goat Scar, Kentmere Pike, Harter Fell, Little Harter Fell and Adam Seat. Visibility about 20 yards - good to be able to follow the fence throughout! Easy, grassy walking all the way, managed to get round just about before torrential rain arrived. | wheresthepath | 30/09/2023 |
| Hike(comma) with Paul Kenny | Fidget | 30/07/2023 |
| From Sad Gill Dad and I walked to the summit of the Gatesgarth pass where we turned to climb Harter Fell. Awful driving rain and wind. | M0YDH | 30/06/2023 |
| 19 mile walk of Kentmere Horseshoe with a couple of out and back diversions. From Kentmere church, Sallows, Sour Howes, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornythwaite Beacon, High Street, Rough Crag, reascend to High Street, Mardale Ill Bell, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts. Last couple of hills with Doug and Jen from Wigan, lovely couple. | Longwojo | 17/06/2023 |
| kentmere horseshoe ending with camping at small water, completing the following morning. Stunning view looking west into the lakes. Very quiet only seeing 2 people over the day. | NCurtis | 14/06/2023 |
| Ascended with the kids on a clockwise circular of the Kentmere Horseshoe | thecoopers | 28/05/2023 |
| 14 miles 4114ft walk, start at Mardale Head carpark Haweswater Reservoir to Rough Crag, High Street, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Mardale III Bell, Goat Scar and Shipman Knotts return by Gatescarth Pass. | stephenbuda | 13/05/2023 |
| Climbed with Eliza from Kentmere. Continued to Kentmere Pike, Goat Scar and Shipman Knotts. | dhbond | 25/02/2023 |
| R K | Richard Tait | 23/02/2023 |
| Accent from mardale ILL bell really nice easy fell Laura Kay and Flo | Lauralj84 | 12/02/2023 |
| The Kentmere Horseshoe. Shipman Knotts - Kentmere Pike - Harter Fell (Mardale) - Mardale III Bell - Thornthwaite Crag - Froswick - III Bell - Yoke. | sms.37 | 05/02/2023 |
| The Kentmere Horseshoe. Shipman Knotts - Kentmere Pike - Harter Fell (Mardale) - Mardale III Bell - Thornthwaite Crag - Froswick - III Bell - Yoke. With Si | Nicefish | 05/02/2023 |
| Circular hike around the head of Mardale. From the car park at the head of Haweswater, up to Gatesgarth Pass, then past Little Harter Fell to Harter Fell, down to Nan Bield Pass, and up to Mardale Ill Bell. Then across to Thornthwaite Crag, and back along the broad track to the trig on High Street, before dropping down to the Straits of Riggindale. From here visiting The Knott, Rampsgill Head, Kidsty Pike, and High Raise in quick succession. Found a new way down via Low Raise, and the SE Ridge to Haweswater, taking in Castle Crag for the first time with its fine view along the way. A perfect day with sun, frozen ground, and many walkers out. 19.7km with 1100m ascent taking 7 hours. | silverwolf_alan | 02/01/2023 |
| Bike from Staveley Station, Shipman Knotts to Mardale Ill Bell and back via nan Bield pass | trimarc2 | 02/12/2022 |
| From Sadgill, Longsleddale. 12.5 km, 670 m asc. Cross the River Sprint and head S and W to the top of the Kentmere track then N up the wall to Shipman Knotts summit. Continuing over Kentmere Pike and Harter Fell summits. E over Little Harter Fell to Gatescarth Pass and down the track S to Sadgill. Sunny, warm. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720303656959 | SalmonJoe | 13/11/2022 |
| What an amazing day - the Kentmere Horseshoe. Weather was mixed with hail showers but we still got great views | ejjohnstone | 01/11/2022 |
| Wainwright Walk 16: Spider (High Street, Harter Fell, Mardale Ill Bell, Branstree & Selside Pike) | DavidHiner | 29/10/2022 |
| 6 of 9 starting at lowfield lane near the bridleway at green quarter. From little harter fell. Weather terrible. Visibility - nil. Signs of life.0. Wainwright no. 89 | The-Z-Man | 27/10/2022 |
| From Haweswater | Adventurers5 | 10/10/2022 |
| https://jimearl6.com/a-harter-fell-round-from-sadgill/#more-6671 | Jimearl6 | 29/09/2022 |
| Kentmere circuit today. Bagged Yoke, Ill Bell, Frostwick, Thornthwaite Crag (again), High Street, Mardale Ill Bell, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike & Shipman Knotts (143/214 Wainrights) with John Herbert | george_herbert_ | 24/09/2022 |
| 11.8 mile circular from Sadgill. Up Gatesgarth Pass, then leaving it to cross Bronthwaite Bottom up to the wall. We followed the wall up onto Branstree summit then followed the well-defined slightly boggy path to Selside Pike. We headed back to Branstree via High Howes, then descended back to pass. We followed the good path up Harter Fell (previously ascended in 2004) and continued along the ridge to Kentmere Pike and carried onto Shipman Knotts descending to pass back down to Sadgill. 1007m ascent. The weather was variable as we started in full cloud, then it got sunny, then it almost got rainy and finally windy, back down to the dale which was warm. Typical Lakes weather! | DanTrig | 11/09/2022 |
| A poor day for weather, cloudy throughout and drizzly rain picking up as day went on but a good walk nonetheless. From Sadgill east on signed but faint path to stile onto access land. Though nit marked on map path continues all the way up to Grey Crag and on to Tarn Crag though a bit vague in places. continued north along wall over coll and part way up towards Selside Brow then west on easy grassy ground to head of Gatesgarth pass. easy even in the cloud. Rest of route all on path. Up to Harte Fell and south to Kentmere Pike the ENE along wall to mine workings where pickd up disused mine track doen to main valley track. Easy all the way. | dickscroop | 23/07/2022 |
| Sunny/Hot/Clear. Part of the Kentmere Horseshoe. | Amanda&JamesExplore | 10/07/2022 |
| Kentmere horse shoe with Joanne. | Daisy Dee | 05/07/2022 |
| Kentmere Church - Yoke - Ill Bell - Froswick - Thornthwaite Crag - Gray Crag - High Street - Mardale Ill Bell - Harter Fell - Kentmere Pike - Shipman Knotts - Kentmere Church | JHes | 23/06/2022 |
| Peak 3 on the day. With Jack, Ben and Soph. Very very windy so we quit after this one. | jeffpl | 11/06/2022 |
| Walked up from Mardale head | billames | 21/04/2022 |
| kentmere round | rachelcawley | 08/04/2022 |
| Extended Kentmere Round with MK | Nab Scar | 26/03/2022 |
| Shipman Knotts - Kentmere Pike - Harter Fell - Mardale Ill Bell - High Street - Froswick - Ill Bell - Rainsborrow Crag - Yoke - Sallows | Benarbia_4 | 26/03/2022 |
| With Nicola, Kevin, Jim, Gus and Spot- clockwise route | AbiD | 17/01/2022 |
| plus team AC | HardenC | 28/11/2021 |
| Longsleddale Horseshoe. Solo. Came up from Gatescarth Pass over Adam Seat and Little Harter Fell. Onwards to Kentmere Pike. W178 Rnd6. | Dangerous Dave | 23/09/2021 |
| Overcast/dry/clear. | Amanda&JamesExplore | 12/09/2021 |
| With Sue, David, Linda, Don and Liz on a clockwise Kentmere round on a perfect day. | Phreerunner | 08/09/2021 |
| Took a Monday off that Bec took off originally but had to cancel because of work. I still had mine so setting off at 4am I headed to Mardale for a short walk to dust off the cobwebs knowing Im taking my dad and sister up Helvellyn on Friday. After seeing lots of deer I started at Mardale Dale head car park and headed up Gatescarth Pass turning right to Harter Fell at the top. couldnt believe how much fitter I was than last time I did it. Got all the way to the top in less than an hour and without stopping. From the summit and after a milkshake made my way down to Nans Bield pass. The views were absolutely incredible even though it was very windy. After making it to the col I turn right to head for the shot of small water as on the front of the OS map. This is a stunning tarn and a must for wild camping. From there short walk back to the car. Didn see anyone all day. I was home before 10am to watch an exciting test cricket match were India beat England. Then watched snooker and Allen | Scotty 2 Hotty | 16/08/2021 |
| (Age 11). Fourth summit on a 22km Kentmere Round as far as High Street. | Mollyb | 14/08/2021 |