Helvellyn via Whelpside Gill
Sat 3 Mar 2007
Route: Wythburn - Whelpside Gill - Brownrigg Well - Helvellyn - Swallow Scarth - Nethermost Pike - Dollywaggon Pike - the head of Raise Beck - Seat Sandal - Dunmail Raise - Permissive path - Wythburn
Distance: 7.00 miles
Ascent: 3,450ft
Time: 5 hours 15 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Dry, in cloud on the top of Helvellyn
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The Wythburn valley from above Wythburn church
Looking back down on Thirlmere from Whelpside Gill
Looking across Thirlmere to Ullscarf
Heading up Whelpside Gill
Beck junction, we took the left hand stream to head for Brownrigg Well and Helvellyn's summit
Steel Fell
Whelpside Gill Spring (Brownrigg Well)
The start of Whelpside Gill
Helvellyn's trig point, no view for us today
The path to Swallow Scarth and Nethermost Pike from Helvellyn's summit
Looking back down on Whelpside Gill and Thirlmere
Striding Edge from Swallow Scarth
Dollywaggon Pike
High Crag, Nethermost Pike and High Spying How
Looking down Grisedale to Place Fell with Saint Sunday Crag on the right from Dollywaggon Pike's summit
Seat Sandal from the post on Dollywaggon Pike
Looking back up the wall we had descended by off Dollywaggon Pike
Seat Sandal from our descent off Dollywaggon Pike
Looking across Grisedale Tarn to Saint Sunday Crag, Cofa Pike and Fairfield from our ascent of Seat Sandal
Saint Sunday Crag
Dollywaggon Pike from Seat Sandal
Grasmere from Seat Sandal
Thirlmere with Skiddaw in the far distance from our descent to Dunmail Raise from Seat Sandal
Dunmail Raise
The view north to Thirlmere from the permissive path to Wythburn from Dunmail Raise
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