His decision was based on it having "the appearance of an isolated mountain with a peaked summit and steep sides, a very shapely pyramid rising from the green fields.

After half a mile of steady fall, the ridge throws up the barely perceptible summit of High Harsop Dodd.

Middle Dodd dacite forms the crest of the ridge with the volcaniclastic sandstone of the Esk Pike Formation beneath.

[3] According to Wainwright [1] High Hartsop Dodd was briefly in the news in 1948 owing to efforts to save two terriers trapped in a hole on the Caiston flank.

The summit of High Hartsop Dodd bears a small cairn at the point where the ridge briefly levels out.