Hiking Helvellyn by the Mires Beck route.
I’m well pumped from the sporty climb in this photo at about 650 m. on The Nab.
Glenridding, Ullswater and the Pennines in the far distance.
Helvellyn: summit (950 m.) panoramic 180° view
Striding Edge, Helvellyn
Red Tarn, Helvellyn
Skiddaw (931 m.) viewed from Helvellyn
Glenridding and Ullswater
Glenridding and Ullswater
Dawn mist on Ullswater
Cumbrian breakfast, Glenridding
Hellvellyn Hike Two
Day Two - same Mires Beck path at much the same time of day as Day One but without mist
“Miresbeck”
Mires Beck route, Glenridding and Ullswater below
Mires Beck route, view of Silver Point, Ullswater
Helvellyn: Striding Edge on left and Swirral Edge on right
“The Hole in the Wall”, view down Grisedale to Patterdale
Grisedale
Grisedale, view to Hause Gap
Glenridding and Ullswater, view from above Lanty’s Tarn
Glenridding Screes, mine and Sheffield Pike, view from above Lanty’s Tarn
Two hikes up Helvellyn on successive days: two views of the same mountain but so different
Fantastic all-round view at the summit of England’s second highest peak, Helvellyn (960 m.). It’s a tough climb starting from Glenridding and following the Mires Beck up to the place known as The Hole in the Wall; then the famous scramble to the top via the Striding Edge route. But the view rewards the effort and justified the Cumbrian breakfast as the dawn mist cleared on Ullswater. Then descending by the Keppel Cove route, passing the disued mine works at Lucy’s Tongue and Glenridding Screes.
I did almost all of it again the next day to try to recover something I’d lost. No luck with my search but the different atmospherics made the views totally different. I came back down the green Grisedale route, then Lanty’s Tarn and hiking back with picture postcard views of Grisedale, Patterdale, Glenridding and Ullswater.