Due to the time of year, I have decided to keep this route short to enable us to take our time without rushing to be back within day light hours.  We park at Patterdale Cricket Club (£5 Honesty Box). Walking along the roadside into Glenriidding will give our legs a warm-up before we reach The Rake, which is our route up to Glenridding Dodd 442 m and the first Wainwright of the day. It’s fairly steep, not as bad as the name may imply & nothing technically difficult – we can take our time and take lots of opportunities to “take in the view”. We may well have a coffee stop either on the way up or at the summit. Retracing our steps a short way, there is a little more gentle climbing to reach our next summit of Heron Pike, 612m not a Wainwright, but a Birkett with probably the best views of all three peaks. Its then on to Sheffield Pike, another Wainwright and our highest summit at 675m  - probably the lunch stop. After this it’s all downhill. Down to the footbridge near the quarries, and then descending to the valley floor where we will take the path back to Glenridding for refreshments before returning to the cars. No scrambling on this walk though a couple of places where a free hand would help. If the weather is kind there are amazing views to be had and a good opportunity to work off the excesses of the Christmas party

It could be icy - please bring micro spikes if you have them

Hope to see you there

Christine

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