Route: Wythburn - Comb Gill - Birk Side - Nethermost Pike - Swallow Scarth - Helvellyn - Helvellyn Lower Man - White Side - Raise - Sticks Pass - Stanah
Distance: 6.50 miles
Ascent: 3,150ft
Time: 5 hours 20 minutes
With: Roger & Ann Hiley, David & Jennifer Hall and Anne
Notes:
Another brilliant temperature inversion, cloud in the valley with a top around 2,000 - 2,500ft and blue sky and sunshine above, cold wind on the tops.
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Climbing the path out of Comb Gill above Wythburn church
Still in the cloud but a promise of some sun...
Breaking out of the cloud above Wythburn
Part of Ullscarf with Great Gable on the left and Pillar on the right
A westerly panorama from Birk Side as we get above the cloud
The north western fells from Birk Side
Crinkle Crags to Grisedale Pike from Birk Side
The High Stile ridge, Dale Head, Hindscarth, Robinson, the Grasmoor fells and Grisedale Pike
Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Scafell Pike
The view west from the path below Nethermost Pike
Saint Sunday Crag with the High Street fells behind from Nethermost Pike
Helvellyn from Nethermost Pike
Striding Edge
Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Pillar and the High Stile ridge from the col between Nethermost Pike and Helvellyn
Helvellyn's summit
White Side, Raise and the Dodds with Blencathra beyond from Lower Man
The view west from White Side
The islands of Skiddaw and Blencathra from White Side's summit
Bowfell, Esk Pike, Scafell Pike and Great Gable
Sheffield Pike with the North Pennines in the distance
Looking over Birkhouse Moor to the High Street ridge from Raise
Raise's summit
Descending to Sticks Pass with Stybarrow Dodd ahead
Descending from Sticks Pass to Stanah
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