Route: Glenridding village - Glenridding Dodd - Heron Pike - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Glencoyne Head - Hart Side - White Stones (Green Side) - Stybarrow Dodd - Sticks Pass - Raise - White Side - Glenridding (Greenside Road) - Glenridding village
Distance: 10.25 miles
Ascent: 3,575ft
Time: 5 hours 30 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine with a bit of cloud building. Hardly any wind. Lots of snow underfoot.
Area
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Looking up Glenridding to Raise from the lower slopes of Glenridding Dodd
Down on Glenridding
Gowbarrow Fell and Ullswater with the snowy North Pennines in the far distance from Glenridding Dodd's summit
Birkhouse Moor, Catstycam, top of Helvellyn Lower Man, White Side and Raise from Glenridding Dodd's summit
Heron Pike, Sheffield Pike's east ridge from Glenridding Dodd
Ullswater and Glenridding Dodd from the start of the east ridge
Towards Catstycam
Looking back down the east ridge to Glenridding Dodd
Ullswater and the North Pennines from Heron Pike
Looking towards Sheffield Pike's summit
Sheffield Pike summit
The two sides of the boundary stone in Sheffield Pike's summit cairn
Catstycam to Raise
The way ahead round Glencoyne Head
The snow was deep in places
Looking back to Sheffield Pike with the Far Eastern fells behind
Glencoyne
Great and Little Mell Fells and the North Pennines from Hart Side's summit
Stybarrow Dodd with the top of Raise sticking out about White Stones on the far left from Hart Side
Raise with its ski tow, working today
Looking back to Hart Side as I head up Stybarrow Dodd
Skiddaw and Blencathra from Stybarrow Dodd's summit
Towards Bowfell, the Scafells and Great Gable, to name a few, from Stybarrow Dodd
Looking east to Sheffield Pike and the far eastern fells from the descent to Sticks Pass
Raise's summit cairn
Over High Seat to the north western fells
Southwest towards Scafell Pike and Great Gable
Catstycam, Helvellyn, Lower Man and the top of White Side from Raise
The ridge up Helvellyn Lower Man on the left and White Side, summit on the right
North to Skiddaw, but no snow on High Rigg, from White Side
Looking back to Raise from White Side, I'm heading for the path that can just be made out across the centre of the photo, time to head down
The White Side track
Greenside mines and Sheffield Pike as I head back to Glenridding
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