Route: Swirls - Browncove Crags path - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Red Tarn - Striding Edge - Helvellyn - Browncove Crags path - Swirls
Distance: 6.50 miles
Ascent: 3,300ft
Time: 4 hours 15 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine with a light breeze to start but cloud and wind increasing during the day.
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Skiddaw and Blencathra from the path up from Swirls
Crinkle Crags, the pointed Bowfell, Esk Pike, the Scafells, Glaramara and Great Gable
Great Gable, Pillar, Dale Head and High Spy to the west
Looking north to White Side with Stybarrow Dodd behind and then Great Dodd behind again
Looking east to the North Pennines
Looking towards Helvellyn Lower Man
The view south towards Nethermost Pike
The path to Helvellyn's summit
Swirral Edge to Catstycam
Helvellyn's summit
Red Tarn and Striding Edge from Helvellyn's summit
Andy Lang and Sean McMahon with Angus and Casper heading for the top of Swirral Edge
Catstycam from Helvellyn's summit
The view west from Helvellyn's summit
Descending Swirral Edge
Looking back up Swirral Edge
Helvellyn from Red Tarn
Part of Striding Edge and Helvellyn from Red Tarn
Catstycam from Red Tarn
Striding Edge
Helvellyn and Red Tarn
Striding Edge
The Dixon memorial just after High Spying How at the start of Striding Edge
Another shot of Striding Edge
Looking back along Striding Edge
The climb to Helvellyn's summit from the end of Striding Edge
Looking back to The Chimney, the awkward bit of Striding Edge
Another shot looking back to Striding Edge, this time from the climb to Helvellyn's summit
Saint Sunday Crag
Looking over Red Tarn and Birkhouse Moor to Ullswater and Place Fell with the High Street ridge behind and the North Pennines in the distance
Striding Edge from Helvellyn's summit
The cross shelter at Helvellyn's summit
Looking north to Blencathra
Skiddaw and Blencathra from above Browncove Crags
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