Walk Information
Walk route: Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Heron Pike - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Glencoyne Head - Hart Side - Birkett Fell - Glencoyne - Greenside Mine - Greenside Road - Glenridding
Distance: 8.00 miles
Ascent: 2,800ft
Time: 6 hours 0 minutes
With: Anne and Ann & Roger Hiley
Conditions: Mild, haze/low cloud limiting the long distance views, very strong wind for most of the walk
Route Map
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Photos
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The Ranger Service Hut/Garage at Glenridding
...in memory of Captain Robert Ives (RIASC)
Climbing above Rake Cottages
Looking up Glenridding to Raise from above Blaes Crag
Heron Pike from Glenridding Dodd's summit
The cairn has been knocked down since we were last up here in February
Looking down on the village of Glenridding and the head of Ullswater
Mossdale with Ullswater beyond
A boundary stone on the way up Sheffield Pike's south-east ridge - 'H' for the Howard estate of Greystoke
Ullswater from Sheffield Pike's south-east ridge
Can you spot David Hall's rhinoceros rock? And then David Hughlock emailed Roger Hiley with 'but watch out for the shark coming in just above the rhino'... and then Dave Hartley emailed me with 'not forgetting the hedgehog creeping up on the shark!'
Looking back down on Glenridding Dodd from Heron Pike
Boundary post at Heron Pike's summit, 'M' for the Marshall estate of Patterdale
The 'H' for the Howard estate of Greystoke is on the other side!
Heading for Sheffield Pike's summit from Heron Pike, its subsidiary top
Heading for Nick Head with Sticks Pass on the left and Green Side ahead
Green Side (l) and Hart Side (r) from near Nick Head
The top most collapsed lead mine gallery above Nick Head
Roger and the two dogs provide scale, if you can spot them!
The path passes close to the edge
The wind was really blowing at this point and it was a real fight to move forward, luckily the wind was blowing us away from the edge!
Glencoyne Head with Hart Side in the distance on the right
Stybarrow Dodd from the prospectors' trial trench on Hart Side's summit
Heading down towards Glencoyne by the wall below Birkett Fell
Looking back along the balcony path, an old miners route round the head of Glencoyne
Glencoyne with Sheffield Pike on the right from the balcony path
Heading along the path towards Nick Head
Glencoyne, a classic U shaped valley
The middle collapsed lead mine gallery above Nick Head
..and another photo of it
Looking up at the galleries, our ascent route had been from Nick Head (off photo right) up the skyline
Walking through the remains of the Greenside workings
Another photo of the upper workings of the Greenside Mine
Looking down on the lower part of the Greenside Mine
Holiday cottage to let
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