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2017.02.28 Patterdale Hotel to Helvellyn round walk -  Leave behind hotel and join track running along Grisedale Beck at ~ NY382157, Ruthwaite Lodge, Grisedale Tarn, pass on way up - Dollywaggon Pike, High Crag, Nethermost Pike, and reach Helvellyn Survey beacon at 950m, follow edge of plateau past Swirral Edge then on ridge to Pile of Stones, pass between Red Screes and Raise (a peak), then below Glenridding Common, continue along Glenridding Beck to Youth Hostel, Glenridding, Patterdale - leader David Hogg - Tuesday

useful lawn mower

leaving from behind Patterdale Hotel

Ullswater

Braesteads across Grisdale Beck

down to Grisdale Beck

up bridleway on south side of Grisdale Beck

Ruthwaite Lodge (climbing hut)

Grisdale Tarn

Grisdale Tarn with Seat Sandal behind. (neck to left leads to Grasmere)

fell runners coming down path we took up to Helvellyn (apparently some runners used Swirral Edge and Striding Edge which had snow but no ice)

in shelter near top of Helvellyn

Brown Cove below us - we kept well away from possibly unstable snowy edge

on ridge towards Pile of Stones

Thirlmere just visible to left in bottom - Bassenthwaite Lake in centre distance?

view of Catstye Cam

disused reservoir (used for mining?) just visible in Brown Cove

Catstye Cam to left, Brown Cove in centre, Swirral Edge above it in centre

disused reservoir zoomed into

Sheffield Pike above to left

beck from Brown Cove joining Red Tarn Beck

Catstye Cam peeping through the cloud

Glenridding ahead in front of Ullwater with Place Fell across the lake

old mine works above Youth Hostel area. Mine tip slopes seem to have been stabilised.

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