Helvellyn to Raise
Sat 30 Mar 2013
Route: Swirls - Browncove Crags path - Helvellyn - Helvellyn Lower Man - White Side - Raise - Sticks Pass - Stanah - road - Swirls
Distance: 7.75 miles
Ascent: 3,175ft
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
A snow shower, cloud and some sunshine. Not much wind.
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Towards Skiddaw as we gain height
Passing snow shower, Lower Man ahead but we are going to Helvellyn first.
Swirral Edge to Catstycam
Helvellyn's trig point
Helvellyn's summit
Catstycam
A climber nears the summit having ascended via Swirral Edge
Towards Lower Man
The view west
View from the top of Lower Man's north ridge
The route up from Swirls looks busier now
Sheffield Pike left and Catstycam right
Catstycam, Helvellyn and Lower Man from Raise
Raise's summit on the far right, Stybarrow Dodd, sun on Watson's Dodd and Blencathra in the distance
Raise's summit cairn
West from Raise, lots of fells to name...
Towards Ullswater
Sticks Pass and Stybarrow Dodd
East from the top of Sticks Pass
The view west as we start our descent from Sticks Pass
Sticks Gill, the western one
Looking back to Sticks Pass
White Side from our lunch spot
High Rigg and Skiddaw
Descending to Stanah
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