Heading to cross Dunmail Raise & the A591 road.
The ascent route to Grisedale Tarn alongside Tongue Gill is directly ahead between Seat Sandal and Fairfield. 

The ascent alongside Tongue Gill starts.

The start of the ascent alongside Tongue Gill.
Looking back across Dunmail Raise (A591) to the Helm Crag ridge

One of the Tongue Gill waterfalls just below Hause Moss.

Looking back towards Grasmere.

On the horizon is the rim of the Hause Moss depression.
Hause Moss is a shallow basin & probably the remains of a long dried up tarn.

Walking along the side of Hause Moss with the rim of Grisedale Hause ahead and Grisedale Tarn just beyond.

Grisedale Tarn and Dollywaggon Pike.

Grisedale Tarn.
Ahead is the route between Dollywaggon Pike and Fairfield which follows Grisedale Beck down the valley and on to Patterdale valley.

Heading down Grisedale valley.
St Sunday Crag is on the right.

Looking across left is a view of Striding Edge.

Ruthwaite Lodge (climbing hut).
Beautiful cascading waterfalls behind the lodge.
Nethermost Pike and Striding Edge can be seen in the distance.

Looking back up the Grisedale valley to St Sunday Crag, Dollywaggon Pike and the hause.

Easy walking alongside Grisedale Beck as the valley broadens out.
Place Fell, on the far shore of Ullswater, is seen in the distance.

A first view of Patterdale valley with Glenridding and Ullswater below us.