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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8½mls (13.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 3,278ft (999m) | |
| Time: | 6½hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Hard) |
Route outline for walk c213:
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
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
 2 English Mountains |
 3 Wainwrights |
 4 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Helvellyn at 950m (3118ft). Helvellyn is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (3rd highest in England, 12th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 3). Helvellyn is also known as an English Nuttall (4th highest in England, 14th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (2nd highest in England, 165th highest in the UK). The summit of Helvellyn is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Catstye Cam at 890m (2921ft). Catstye Cam is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (12th highest in England, 30th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 10). Catstye Cam is also known as an English Nuttall (15th highest in England, 35th highest in England & Wales).
You will also reach the summit of Striding Edge at 863m (2832ft). Striding Edge is also known as an English Nuttall (23rd highest in England, 48th highest in England & Wales).
Along the way you will also bag:
- Birkhouse Moor at 718m (2356ft). Birkhouse Moor is classified as a Wainwright (No. 79) and an English Nuttall (110th highest in England, 188th highest in England & Wales)
This walk 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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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c213 Helvellyn from Glenridding
In no particular order . . .
Myself, Emma Cooper & Rachel Hargreaves descending Helvellyn via Swirral Edge
Looking up Grisedale to St Sunday Crag & Fairfield (left), Grisedale Hause, Dollywaggon Pike, High Crag (Helvellyn) & Nethermost Pike from below Hole-in-the-Wall
Striding Edge and Helvellyn above Red Tarn from the col between Swirral Edge and Catstye Cam
Place Fell, Grisedale and the lower slopes of St Sunday Crag (right) from below Hole-in-the-Wall
Myself, Emma Cooper & Rachel Hargreaves on the summit of Helvellyn after tackling Striding Edge
Helvellyn (left), Swirral Edge and Red Tarn (Helvellyn) from the approach to Striding Edge near Hole-in-the-Wall
. . . load all 229 walk photos from Walk c213 Helvellyn from Glenridding
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