Helvellyn

Date: 12/2/23	Age: 13
Height: 950m	Location: Cumbria
Distance: 13km	Time: 6 hours
Geology: silica- rich magma	people: Me, Dad

We started walking at around 9:30 quickly leaving Patterdale behind. We trekked up a small surprisingly steep grassy slope that left both of us out of breath before making it onto the track leading up to the hole in the wall. Upon reaching the hole in the wall I took one look at striding edge and decided that we weren’t going that way so instead we walked past the little lake and up onto the other ridge. After scrambling up the ridge we were thoroughly disappointed to find that mist shrouded any possibility of a nice view. Heading along the ridge in hope of shelter to eat lunch we found the shelter full with no other place to eat lunch we continued on our walk. Eventually after what seemed like hours we reached the top of dollywaggon where I continued to complain about being hungry and my dad told me for the umpteenth time that it was too cold and windy to stop. After making us stop half way down dollywaggon and being dramatic about how much I needed food we stopped for lunch. After that we walked down the valley following the stream back down towards Patterdale. We finished the walk at half three with sore feet and cold hands.