Route: Patterdale - Grisedale - Ruthwaite Lodge - Ruthwaite Cove - Hard Tarn - east ridge - Nethermost Pike - Swallow Scarth - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstycam - Red Tarn - Birkhouse Moor - Lanty's Tarn - Grisedale - Patterdale
Distance: 10.50 miles
Ascent: 3,300ft
Time: 6 hours 30 minutes
With: David Hall and Anne
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine
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St Patrick's Church, Patterdale
The east ridge of Nethermost Pike right of centre with Dollywaggon Pike on the left from Grisedale
Spout Crag with Falcon Crag on the left from below Ruthwaite Lodge
Ruthwaite Lodge. Nethermost Pike is just to the right of chimney (skyline)
Waterfall above Ruthwaite Lodge on the way up into Ruthwaite Cove
Ruthwaite Cove and High Crag ahead
Looking down into Grisedale and towards Place Fell
Looking back down into Ruthwaite Cove as we head up towards Hard Tarn
Hard Tarn comes into view
Hard Tarn
Hard Tarn
Traversing across to Nethermost Pike's east ridge from Hard Tarn
Grisedale from Nethermost Pike's east ridge
Looking across Nethermost Cove to the end of Striding Edge and the climb to Helvellyn's summit
A few people on Striding Edge today. I wonder, has it been on the TV recently?
The steep part of Nethermost Pike's east ridge
Ascending Nethermost Pike's east ridge
The angle eases but the ridge becomes narrower (Nethermost Pike east ridge)
Nethermost Pike's east ridge
Looking across to Helvellyn from Nethermost Pike's east ridge, the pointed Catstycam on the right
Looking back to the top part of Nethermost Pike's east ridge with Saint Sunday Crag behind on the far side of Grisedale
Helvellyn summit, a popular place today
Looking down Swirral Edge
Ullswater from Catstycam's summit
Helvellyn, Lower Man, White Side and Raise from Catstycam's summit
Swirral Edge from Red Tarn
Red Tarn Beck as it leaves Red Tarn with Birkhouse Moor in the distance
Striding Edge, Helvellyn and Catstycam from Birkhouse Moor's summit
The ridge down to Keldas from Birkhouse Moor
Looking down on Glenridding and Ullswater as we descend to Lanty's Tarn
Lanty's Tarn
Grisedale with Saint Sunday Crag on the left, Dollywaggon Pike ahead and Nethermost Pike right
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