Walk Information
Walk route: Glenridding - Glenridding valley - Keppel Cove Dam - Northwest ridge - Catstycam - Swirral Edge - Helvellyn - Helvellyn Lower Man - White Side - Raise - Sticks Pass - Stybarrow Dodd - Green Side - Hart Side - Nick Head - Sheffield Pike - Heron Pike - Glenridding Dodd - Glenridding
Distance: 11.75 miles
Ascent: 4,400ft
Time: 6 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall
Conditions: Wall to wall blue sky. Sunshine with a warm breeze at times
Route Map
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Photos
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The Greenside Road past Rake Cottages
Catstycam, our route took us up the right hand skyline (north-west ridge)
Keppel Cove Dam, the peak behind is White Side
Keppel Cove Dam
Keppel Cove Dam with the breach clearly visible, Sheffield Pike in the distance
Sheffield Pike and Ullswater from the north-west ridge of Catstycam
Looking back down Catstycam's north west ridge to Keppel Cove Dam
Red Tarn and Striding Edge from Catstycam's summit
Helvellyn from Catstycam
Looking back to Catstycam from our ascent of Swirral Edge
Southerly panorama from Helvellyn's summit - click on image for a larger version
Helvellyn summit panorama - click on image for a larger version
Catstycam with the Keppel Cove Dam bottom left
The path to White Side with the Dodds beyond from Helvellyn Lower Man's summit
Northerly panorama from Helvellyn Lower Man's summit - click on image for a larger version
The high central fells - Bowfell, Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Pillar and the High Stile ridge
Skiddaw from White Side's summit
360 Panorama from Raise's summit - click on image for a larger version
The path to Stybarrow Dodd from Raise with Skiddaw and Blencathra in the distance
The north western fells from Stybarrow Dodd's summit
Hart Side from Stybarrow Dodd
Glencoyne and Ullswater from Glencoyne Head
Westerly panorama from Sheffield Pike's summit - click on image for a larger version
Striding Edge, Helvellyn behind Catstycam, and Helvellyn Lower Man from Sheffield Pike
Ullswater from Heron Pike
Looking down on Glenridding Dodd and the head of Ullswater from Heron Pike
Looking back to Heron Pike from Glenridding Dodd
Ullswater and Glenridding village
previous walk - Thu 1 Jun 2006 - Ling Fell and Sale Fell
next walk - Sun 4 Jun 2006 - Seathwaite Tarn Round