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Striding Edge

Walked on 02/06/2008

Start point: Patterdale (NY 394 160)

Patterdale – Hole-in-the Wall – Striding Edge – Helvellyn – Swirral Edge – Catstycam – Birkhouse Moor – Patterdale

Distance: 7.8 miles     Total Ascent: 925 metres     Time Taken: 3 hours 30 minutes

Weather: Fine drizzle and low lying mist. 14ºC.

It seems like an age since I have been out but regular viewers will know why; it has been a lot of hard work for us with setting up the shop and the business. It will all be worth it though hopefully, but it was great to get out in the fresh air again this morning even if the weather was not the best after a week of lovely sunshine and where better to go than Striding Edge?

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Come on, we haven't been out for ages!

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I don't think we'll have any views today looking at the low lying cloud on Birkhouse Moor and in Grisedale.

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Casper in for an early bath in Grisedale Beck.

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Birks Crag across Grisedale from the start of the climb to the Hole-in-the-Wall.

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Suddenly, a fleeting glimpse of Birks through the mist.

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The head of Grisedale.

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Saint Sunday Crag.

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Grisedale from higher up the climb.

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Birks and Grisedale looking towards Patterdale.

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Catstycam appears fleetingly from the Hole-in-the-Wall. That was the last time I saw anything of it today.

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Heading across Striding Edge.

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The Dixon Memorial on Striding Edge, erected 1858.

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Billy Big Tongue!

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Casper leads the way across Striding Edge.

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Striding Edge.

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No, that's the wrong way Casper.

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Casper fittingly guards The Gough Memorial on Helvellyn. There were no views from here today...

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..or from Catstycam...

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..or from Birkhouse Moor as the mist and drizzle was set in for the morning now.

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