Red Tarn and Birkhouse Moor
Tue 4 Mar 2014
Route: Glenridding village - Glenridding (Greenside Road) - Red Tarn Beck path - Red Tarn - Birkhouse Moor - Lanty's Tarn - Keldas - Glenridding village
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,000ft
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Overcast, rain early on but brightening up
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The Duke of Portland Boathouse, Ullswater
Rake Cottages as I head out of the village
Looking back down the valley
...and again from above Greenside mines
Footbridge across Red Tarn Beck with Sheffield Pike in the distance
Looking across to Birkhouse Moor
Snow bridge
Red Tarn outflow
Red Tarn
Looking back towards Helvellyn and Catstycam from near the Hole-in-the-Wall
Just follow the wall to Birkhouse Moor
Looking back again
High Spying How, Helvellyn (in cloud) and Catstycam
Looking across Grisedale to St Sunday Crag
Looking down on Glenridding with Place Fell on the far side of Ullswater
Glenridding and Ullswater from my descent
Lanty's Tarn
Lots of mud here!
Gowbarrow Fell and Ullswater from Keldas
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