Glenridding Dodd and Sheffield Pike
Sat 5 Jan 2013
Route: Stybarrow Crag, Ullswater - Glenridding village - Glenridding Dodd - Heron Pike - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Glencoyne - Seldom Seen - Ullswater - Stybarrow Crag
Distance: 5.25 miles
Ascent: 2,000ft
Time: 3 hours 25 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Very windy high up. Higher fells in cloud but we managed to get a few sunny intervals. Wet underfoot but dry from above!
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Looking down Ullswater to Gowbarrow Fell which is catching some sun
Part of the lakeside path
Glenridding village and the head of Ullswater, now below us
The Greenside Road up Glenridding
Ullswater from Glenridding Dodd
The ridge to Heron Pike from Glenridding Dodd's summit
Rhinoceros rock, with shark above
Looking back down the ridge
Looking back down on Glenridding Dodd from the boundary marker at Heron Pike's summit
Towards Sheffield Pike's summit
Damp underfoot up here
High tops in cloud
Ullswater from Sheffield Pike's summit cairn
Raise and Green Side, headless
Glencoyne Head
The route to Nick Head
The path down into Glencoyne from Nick Head
Ullswater and the cottages of Seldom Seen, Glencoyne
The old miners cottages of Seldom Seen, Glencoyne
One of the many boathouses on Ullswater
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