Summit and View
The summit area of Great Dodd is a short ridge with the highest point at the north west end, marked by a small cairn. A larger wind shelter lies to the south east. Another cairn lies part way down the western slope on the path to Clough Head, marking the minor top of Little Dodd. The view is good, with much of the Lake District and a portion of the northern Pennines in sight.
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“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,—their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.”
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