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Hello everyone
how lucky am I? Yesterday it was again a visit to the Lakes and a chance to repeat my first ever mountain walk, Helvellyn via Striding Edge which I did on 1st September 2007 on what became a very misty day and sadly gave no views, the followng picture is from that day.
- Helvellyn 1.9.2007
So it was another early get up and a drive to Patterdale, kitted up we were walking by 8.30am which put us near the front of a large queue later on.
- The gang at Hole in the Wall
View down the valley.
- Valley view
Start of Striding Edge.
- Start of the edge
Looking over Red Tarn.
- Red Tarn
- Yours truly
It was dry on the rocks so the going was quite good, but we were closely watched by Commander Conroy just in case
- Where are my troops?
Here we are lined up on the edge,great fun.
- Here we are
We picked our way along the spine until we reached the chimney at the end, when I was last here there was a fell race on and marshalls had put a rope to aid speed through this part, no such luck today.
- One at a time please
- Take care
- The tricky bit
- One or two overtake us, must be in a rush
- Checkout time!
Finally after the scramble up to the summit we can savour the great views from the 950 metre peak.
- The summit trig point
We arrived back in Patterdale at 3.00pm after a great walk, plenty of laughs and good company, roll on the next one.