Birkhouse Moor - Lake District Walk
Wednesday 19th September 2007
Today's walk was an invitation from Sean from the Striding Edge.net web site to join Angus, Casper and himself on a walk up onto Helvellyn via Striding Edge. I was offered a lift to the start of the walk by two fellow OFC members Ann & Roger Hiley who were also planning on walking with Sean. Having done Great Dodd the day before I was never certain that I would make it as far as Helvellyn but I decided to give it a go and see how it went. It was a very wet start to the day but as we headed up towards the Hole-in-the-Wall the rain stopped, the clouds started to lift and the sun started to come out. Once we reached the Hole-in-the -Wall I decided to head off in another direction towards Birkhouse Moor as my legs were feeling the effects of the previous days walk. As I reached Birkhouse Moor the weather continued to improve and so rather than head straight down to Glenridding I decided to back-track and visit Red Tarn which I hadn't done before.
Start: Patterdale (NY 3928 1615)
Route: Patterdale - Hole-in-the-Wall - Birkhouse Moor - Red Tarn - Greenside Road - Glenridding
Distance: 7.5 miles Ascent: 655 metres Time Taken: 5 hours 15 mins
Weather: A wet start that cleared to blue sky and sunshine.
Pub Visited: White Lion, Patterdale Ale Drunk: Tirrell Brewery, Old Faithful
A wet view of Grisedale Valley as we start up the track to the Hole-in-the-Wall.
Looking towards the head of Grisedale Valley. Is that blue sky I can see?
Sunshine, not something we expected to see at the start of the walk.
Looking rather wet at the Hole-in-the-Wall.
The Striding Edge team. The senior member of the team Angus, the apprentice Casper and Sean.
Birkhouse Moor.
The rest of the group start making their way up Striding Edge.
Striding Edge & Catsycam from Birkhouse Moor.
The cloud starts to clear from Striding Edge.
Looking up Kepple Cove from Birkhouse Moor.
Sheffield Pike.
Ullswater.
Place Fell with Loadpot Hill behind.
Looking towards High Street.
The cloud starts to lift from Helvellyn.
Heading towards Red Tarn.
Helvellyn across Red Tarn.
Raise from the path down to Greenside mines.
Glenridding Beck.
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