Red Tarn and Birkhouse Moor
Thu 24 Feb 2011
Route: Glenridding village - Greenside Road - Red Tarn Beck path - Red Tarn - Birkhouse Moor - Mires Beck path - Glenridding village
Distance: 6.00 miles
Ascent: 1,900ft
Time: 4 hours
With: On own
Notes:
Broken cloud, very mild, windy
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Looking up the Greenside Road
An old mine building, built into the ground
Catstycam from by Glenridding Beck
Looking back down the path and across to Sheffield Pike
Across Red Tarn to Helvellyn
The path to The Hole in the Wall from Red Tarn, and then on to Birkhouse Moor
Looking back to a clearer Helvellyn
Catstycam and Swirral Edge onto Helvellyn
Catstycam
High Spying How (Striding Edge), Helvellyn in cloud and Catstycam from Birkhouse Moor's summit
Birkhouse Moor's east ridge
Looking down on Glenridding and Ullswater from the Mires Beck path
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