Birkhouse Moor and Red Tarn
Sun 2 Mar 2008
Route: Glenridding village - Keldas - Lanty's Tarn - Birkhouse Moor - Red Tarn - Red Tarn Beck path - Glenridding - Glenridding village
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,000ft
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Overcast, windy, dry except for a couple of spots of rain
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Fellbites cafe in Glenridding with Glenridding Dodd behind
Silver Point sticking out into Ullswater with Gowbarrow Fell in sunshine beyond
Heron Pike and Glenridding Dodd
Birkhouse Moor from Keldas summit
Lanty's Tarn
Saint Sunday Crag
Upper Grisedale
Birkhouse Moor's east ridge as we are just about to join the main path which climbs up to the ridge beside Mires Beck
Looking back down Birkhouse Moor's east ridge with Place Fell on the other side of Ullswater
Looking towards Helvellyn and Catstycam from Birkhouse Moor's summit
Zooming in on Catstycam
The end of Striding Edge from Red Tarn
Helvellyn appears out of the cloud
The path down by Red Tarn Beck
Zooming in on the White Side zig-zags, the old pony-track
Looking back up Glenridding Beck to Catstycam with Helvellyn Lower Man in the distance
LDNPA fell top assessor Jon Bennett met on our descent from Red Tarn
Our path above the Glenridding valley
Looking back towards the Greenside mines
Glenridding village with Place Fell behind
Previous Walk: Latrigg (Sat 1 Mar 2008)
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