Dollywaggon Pike to Helvellyn
Sun 15 Aug 2010
Route: Dunmail Raise - Raise Beck - Grisedale Tarn - Dollywaggon Pike - High Crag - Nethermost Pike - Swallow Scarth - Helvellyn - Browncove Crags path - Swirls
Distance: 6.25 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 5 hours 15 minutes
With: Anne and David & Jennifer Hall
Notes:
Hazy sunshine and no wind
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Leaving Dunmail Raise, our route is by Raise Beck, between Willie Wife Moor (left) and Seat Sandal (right)
Looking across Dunmail Raise to Steel Fell
Looking back down Raise Beck to Dunmail Raise
Grisedale Tarn with Fairfield behind
Seat Sandal and Grisedale Tarn from the Dollywagon zig-zags
...and the view west from higher up
Heading up the Dollywaggon Pike zig-zags
Grisedale and Place Fell from Dollywaggon Pike's summit
High Crag, the flat topped Nethermost Pike with Helvellyn behind and the pointed Catstycam
Zooming in on Nethermost Pike's east ridge and Hard Tarn
High Crag
Bowfell, Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Pillar behind High Raise and Ullscarf to name a few, from High Crag
High Crag's summit cairn, looking towards Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn
High Spying How from Nethermost Pike
Catstycam with Ullswater in the distance from Helvellyn's summit trig point
The path to the top of Browncove Crags
Heading down
Thirlmere below and Skiddaw in the distance
Even with all the recent rain and the hosepipe ban Thirlmere is still very low
Raven Crag, The Benn and Skiddaw
Previous Walk: Carrock Fell and High Pike (Sat 7 Aug 2010)
Next Walk: Four Stones Hill and Haweswater (Sat 28 Aug 2010)