Walk Information
Walk route: Swirls - Browncove Crags path - Helvellyn - Helvellyn Lower Man - below Browncove Crags - Swirls
Distance: 4.75 miles
Ascent: 2,600ft
Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
With: on own
Conditions: Blue sky and scattered clouds, warm out of the cooling breeze
Route Map
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Licence number AL100038401
Photos
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Looking towards Browncove Crags from near Swirls
Thirlmere with the Skiddaw fells in the distance from above Swirls
Browncove Crags ahead, the path goes to the right of the crags
The view north
Hawes How Island and Deergarth How Island and a low Thirlmere
Swirls Gate
My name from the gap between the boulders at the top of the steepest part of the ascent
Lower Man ahead
Towards the flat top of Helvellyn, the path on the right goes straight to the trig point
South to the distance Coniston fells
Catstycam
Helvellyn's summit trig point
The cross shelter and south to Fairfield and Nethermost Pike
Red Tarn
North from Lower Man's summit, a clear path to White Side
Brown Cove below and Sheffield Pike in the distance
The cove below Browncove Crags, not called Brown Cove
Browncove Crags
Back on the pitched path for the rest of the descent
Helvellyn Gill
previous walk - Sat 22 May 2010 - Great Borne and Starling Dodd from Ennerdale
next walk - Wed 30 Jun 2010 - Scafell Pike plus from Seathwaite