Route: Glenridding village - Mires Beck path - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - High Spying How - Striding Edge - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstycam - east shoulder - Red Tarn Beck path - Greenside mines - Glenridding village
Distance: 9.00 miles
Ascent: 3,020ft
Time: 4 hours 50 minutes
With: Peter Burgess
Notes:
Mild, some small snow patches, the top of Helvellyn was in cloud
Area
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Ullswater sunrise on the way to Glenridding
Glenridding Dodd from the Mires Beck path
Looking back down on Glenridding
Ullswater from the north east top of Birkhouse Moor
Helvellyn lost in cloud and the pointed top of Catstycam from Birkhouse Moor summit
Looking back down the ridge to Place Fell and down into Grisedale
High Spying How and Striding Edge
On Stridng Edge
Red Tarn from Striding Edge
The short descent at the end of Striding Edge before the climb up to Helvellyn's summit
Helvellyn's summit shelter
No views from Helvellyn's summit today
Swirral Edge
Swirral Edge and Catstycam
Red Tarn and Striding Edge from Swirral Edge
Catstycam
Looking back up Swirral Edge
Ullswater from Catstycam's summit!
Looking back to Catstycam
The Greenside mine road back to Glenridding
Ullswater on the drive home
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