Catstye Cam
890m (2921ft)
The Eastern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England
Catstye Cam is on Ordnance Survey Maps:
| OS Explorer Map OL5 | |
| 1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers) |
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| OS Landranger Map 90 | |
| 1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers) |
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Catstye Cam is on Peak Bagging Map & Hill Tick List:
*Version marked with the walk routes you need to follow to Walk all 214 Wainwrights in just 59 walks.
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Walk c213 Helvellyn from Glenridding
Lakeland's 3rd highest via the infamous Striding & Swirral Edges - not for the faint hearted
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.5ml (13.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 3,278ft (999m) | |
| Time: | 6½ hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Hole-in-the-Wall - Brownend Plantation - Grisedale Beck - Lanty's Tarn - Keldas - Glenridding
Walk c224 Helvellyn via Swirral Edge and Raise from Glenridding
Lakeland's most popular via the easier Swirral Edge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10.75ml (17km) | |
| Ascent: | 3,449ft (1,051m) | |
| Time: | 7.25hrs | |
| Grade: | | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Catstye Cam - Swirral Edge - Helvellyn - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - White Side - Raise (Helvellyn) - Sticks Pass - Lucy's Tongue - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding
Walk c394 Helvellyn, Catstye Cam and Sheffield Pike from Glenridding
Superb high level walk
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10ml (16km) | |
| Ascent: | 4,020ft (1,225m) | |
| Time: | 8 hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Sticks Pass - Raise (Helvellyn) - White Side - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding Youth Hostel - Glenridding
Walk c286 The Glenridding Skyline from Glenridding
Superb high level walk
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.5ml (18.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 4,418ft (1,346m) | |
| Time: | 8½ hrs | |
| Grade: | | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Glencoyne Head - Hart Side - Green Side (White Stones) - Stybarrow Dodd - Sticks Pass - Raise (Helvellyn) - White Side - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Red Tarn Beck - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding Youth Hostel - Glenridding
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Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Catstye Cam
Joanne Kay walked up on April 30th, 2021 [from/via/route] Patterdale
Andrew Johnson climbed on July 1st, 2021 [from/via/route] Patterdale [weather] Fair weather
Richard Marshall bagged on August 15th, 2021 [from/via/route] Birk house & Cat Stye Cam [with] Me [weather] Wet & cloudy
Christine Shepherd hiked on June 6th, 2006 [from/via/route] Walked from Glennridding using walk c394 [with] My daughter Rebecca [weather] Hot & sunny - Climbed this peak again on 11.6.09 using walk c213 after leading friends over Striding Edge. Repeated the walk from Glenridding solo on 15.4.21 on a glorious day.
Angela Haworth summited on September 26th, 1999 [from/via/route] From Glenridding Birkhouse Moor - Striding Edge- Helvellyn- Swirral Edge - Catstycam [with] children [weather] Dry - .
Angela Moroney conquered on September 14th, 2020 [from/via/route] glen ridding [with] SOLO
Jane Wilkinson has scaled [with] Hazel doing a winter skills course
Andy Buxton walked up during February, 1968 [from/via/route] From Patterdale. Swirral Edge, Helvellyn & descend Striding Edge. [with] BVGS [weather] Sunny,but very cold - Striding Edge under snow & ice. Very interesting.
Michael Austin climbed on June 28th, 2019 [from/via/route] Striding Edge
Richard Banks bagged on August 17th, 2019 [from/via/route] Thirlmere
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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Catstye Cam
*Striding Edge (left), Helvellyn, Swirral Edge and Catstye Cam (far right) from near Hole-in-the-wall
Striding Edge, Helvellyn, Swirral Edge and Catstye Cam from Hole-in-the-Wall
Striding Edge and Helvellyn above Red Tarn from the col between Swirral Edge and Catstye Cam
Catstye Cam (left), Helvellyn (centre) and Lower Man (Helvellyn) (right) from near White Side
Catstye Cam, White Side and Raise (Helvellyn) from the summit of Birkhouse Moor
Swirral Edge, Catstye Cam, Red Tarn (Helvellyn) and Ullswater from the summit of Helvellyn
Birkhouse Moor summit cairn - with Striding Edge, Helvellyn, Swirral Edge and Catstye Cam beyond
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