Home The 214 Fells Map         High Spy Overview Height: 2,143 Feet - 653 Metres Grid Ref: NY 234 162 Area: North Western Group: NW/DAL Ordnance Survey: OL4 Wainwright Guidebook: Six High country can rarely be appraised properly from the valley-level, however. The long skyline visible from below is not the ridge of the fell, as it appears to be, but the edge of a wide plateau where the steep rise of the slopes eases to a gentler gradient, the true spine lying well back, and it is here, along a crest, that one really enters upon fell walkers territory.     Map and Photo Gallery High Spy and Maiden Moor seen over Newlands. High Spy from the ascent of Dale Head. The north west fells from High Spy's summit cairn   There are 13 walks to choose from including High Spy Cat Bells, High Spy & Rigghead Quarry 25th March 2023 ASCENT: 2,780 Feet - 847 Metres MILES: 9.2 WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - High Spy - Rigghead Quarry - River Derwent - Grange - Manesty - Catbells Terrace - Gutherscale   High Spy to Cat Bells via Nitting Haws 12th March 2022 ASCENT: 2,412 Feet - 735 Metres MILES: 7 WAINWRIGHTS: 3, High Spy - Maiden Moor - Cat Bells ROUTE: Grange - Swanesty How - Nitting Haws - Drove Road - High Spy - Narrow Moor - Maiden Moor - Hause Gate - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Manesty - Grange   Cat Bells to High Spy 4th October 2020 ASCENT: 2,143 Feet - 653 Metres MILES: 9 WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - Blea Crag - High Spy - Dalehead Tarn - Newlands Beck - Newlands Valley - Little Town - Skelgill - Gutherscale   A Newlands Round 21st September 2019 ASCENT: 3,164 Feet - 965 Metres MILES: 10.3 WAINWRIGHTS: 4, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy - Dale Head ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - Dalehead Tarn - Launchy Tarn - Above Yewcrag Quarries - Dale Head - Miners Path - Newlands Beck - Newlands - Little Town - Gutherscale   Walking the Birketts, Dale Head Horseshoe 27th October 2018 ASCENT: 2,855 Feet - 871 Metres MILES: 10 BIRKETTS: 9, Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy (Scawdel Fell) - Dale Head - Hindscarth - High Crags - Red Knott - Scope End ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Catbells - Maiden Moor - High Spy (Scawdel Fell) - Dalehead Tarn - Dale Head - Hindscarth Edge - Hindscarth - Red Knott - Scope End - Low Snab Farm - Newlands Beck - Little Town - Skelgill - Gutherscale   Cat Bells to High Spy 20th August 2017 ASCENT: 2,143 Feet - 653 Metres MILES: 9 WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - Blea Crag - High Spy - Dalehead Tarn - Newlands Valley - Above Little Town - Skelgill - Gutherscale   Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 6 A Newlands Round 5th March 2016 ASCENT: 5,200 Feet - 1,586 Meters MILES: 13.6 WAINWRIGHTS: 8, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy - Dale Head - Hindscarth - Robinson - Knott Rigg - Ard Crags ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skellgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - High Spy - Dalehead Tarn - Dale Head - Hindscarth Edge - Hindscarth - LIttledale Edge - Robinson - Buttermere Moss - High Smockrigg - Moss Force - Newlands Pass - Knott Rigg - Ard Crags - Birk Rigg - Newlands Pass - Stair - Skelgill - Gutherscale   Cat Bells to Dale Head 27th December 2015 ASCENT: 3,320 Feet - 1,013 Meters MILES: 10 WAINWRIGHTS: 4, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy - Dale Head ROUTE: Gutherscale - Skelgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - Blea Crag - High Spy - Dale Head Tarn - Dale Head - Miners Track - Newlands Valley - Above Little Town - Skelgill - Gutherscale   The Harry Griffin 2,000 footers Walk 11 -The Newlands Round 8th May 2015 ASCENT: 3,565 Feet - 1,087 Metres MILES: 9.7 SUMMITS OVER 2,000 Ft: Nitting Haws - High Spy - Dale Head - Robinson - Hindscarth South Top - Hindscarth ROUTE: Little Town - Knott End - High Crags - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moore - Nitting Haws - High Spy - Dalehead Tarn - Dale Head - Hindscarth Edge - Littledale Edge - Robinson - Littledale Edge - Hindscarth South Top - Hindscarth - High Crags - Scope End - Low Snab - Low House Farm - Newlands Church - Little Town   A Newlands Round from Little Town 11th April 2012 ASCENT: 3,359 Feet, 1,024 Metres MILES: 8.5 WAINWRIGHTS: 6, Robinson, Hindscarth, Dale Head, High Spy, Maiden Moor & Cat Bells ROUTE: Newlands Church – High Snab Bank – Robinson – Littledale Edge – Hindscarth – Hindscarth Edge – Dale Head – Dale Head Tarn – High Spy – Narrow Moor – Maiden Moor – Cat Bells – Skelgill Bank – Little Town – Newlands Church   The High Spy Ridge 20th November 2011 ASCENT: 2,142 Feet, 653 Meters MILES: 8.7 WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Cat Bells, Maiden Moor & High Spy ROUTE: Gutherscale – Cat Bells – Maiden Moor – High Spy – Dalehead Tarn –Newlands Beck – Little Town – Gutherscale   Cat Bells & High Spy 24th January 2010 ASCENT: 2143 Ft  653 Mtrs MILES:   WAINWRIGHTS: 3 Cat Bells,Maiden Moor & High Spy ROUTE:     Cat Bells & High Spy 27th September 2009 ASCENT: 653 Mtrs  2143Ft MILES: xxx WAINWRIGHTS: 3  Catbells,Maiden Moor,High Spy ROUTE: xxxx   Back to top   sharkeysdream.co.uk