Route: Swirls - Browncove Crags path - Helvellyn - Swallow Scarth - Birk Side - Wythburn path - forest path - Swirls
Distance: 6.75 miles
Ascent: 2,950ft
Time: 3 hours 50 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Snow on the ground above approx 1,750ft. Very windy on the tops with lots of spindrift. Quickly becoming overcast.
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Looking over Thirlmere to High Seat from the Browncove Crags path
The north western fells from the Browncove Crags path
Ascending the Browncove Crags path up Helvellyn from Swirls
Skiddaw and Blencathra to the north
Climbing above Thirlmere
The view north with White Side centre
Looking over the central fells to Bowfell, the Scafells and Great Gable
Helvellyn Lower Man and the path to Helvellyn
Looking back to Browncove Crags
White Side, Raise, the Dodds and Blencathra to the north
Keppel Cove, Brown Cove and Catstycam
Helvellyn Lower Man to Swirral Edge
Helvellyn's trig point
Red Tarn with the North Pennines beyond the High Street ridge
Helvellyn's summit shelter with Fairfield in the cloud
Striding Edge
The view south towards Nethermost Pike through the spindrift
Heading for the col between Helvellyn and Nethermost Pike
The central fells from Birk Side
A largely snow free central ridge with the north western fells beyond
The Wythburn valley and the central fells
Looking down on Thirlmere from our descent to Wythburn
Looking across Thirlmere to Steel Fell and the Wythburn valley
On the permissive path between Wythburn and Swirls
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