Helvellyn and White Side

Tue 25 Jul 2006

Route: Swirls - Browncove Crags path - Helvellyn - Helvellyn Lower Man - White Side - Brown Crag - above Thirlspot - Swirls

Distance: 6.00 miles

Ascent: 2,900ft

Time: 2 hours 55 minutes

With: On Own

Notes:

Sunny summer's evening, hazy

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Helvellyn Gill and Browncove Crags from Swirls

The wooded Great How with Blencathra in the distance

Footbridge across Helvellyn Gill

Looking over Great How to the Skiddaw fells

Looking up the Browncove Crags path

Hawes How Island,Thirlmere

South easterly panorama from Helvellyn's summit

Catstycam from the trig point at Helvellyn's summit

Red Tarn with Striding Edge on the right and the High Street fells in the far distance

Swirral Edge leading to Catstycam

Swirral Edge

Looking back to Helvellyn from Lower Man

The path to White Side from Lower Man

Looking back to Helvellyn Lower Man

The ridge off White Side to Brown Crag

Sun over the north western fells

Watson's Dodd on the left and Stybarrow Dodd on the right

Above Thirlspot

Previous Walk: Pen, the Scafells and Lord's Rake (Sat 22 Jul 2006)

Next Walk: The Greenburn Round (Sun 30 Jul 2006)

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