Catstycam
Or Catstye Cam on Ordnance Survey Maps. Wainwright is often at odds with the Ordnance Survey about spelling of Lakeland names, but Alfred knew best. His biggest bugbear was that Blencathra was called Saddleback by the OS.
This photograph was taken from Helvellyn in 2010, but in fact we did not go up Catstycam that day. We turned right at the fork in the path on the far left of this photograph, having dropped off Helvellyn via Swirral Edge. I actually climbed Catstycam on some unknown date in the summer of 1973, as described in the Helvellyn script in this album. Catstycam is the pyramidal peak on the left of the picture. The lake nearest the camera is Red Tarn, and the ribbon in the middle distance is Ullswater. It was my fourth Wainwright. I have not set foot upon its summit since. The bulk which obscures the rest of Ullswater is Birkhouse Moor.
Catstycam
Or Catstye Cam on Ordnance Survey Maps. Wainwright is often at odds with the Ordnance Survey about spelling of Lakeland names, but Alfred knew best. His biggest bugbear was that Blencathra was called Saddleback by the OS.
This photograph was taken from Helvellyn in 2010, but in fact we did not go up Catstycam that day. We turned right at the fork in the path on the far left of this photograph, having dropped off Helvellyn via Swirral Edge. I actually climbed Catstycam on some unknown date in the summer of 1973, as described in the Helvellyn script in this album. Catstycam is the pyramidal peak on the left of the picture. The lake nearest the camera is Red Tarn, and the ribbon in the middle distance is Ullswater. It was my fourth Wainwright. I have not set foot upon its summit since. The bulk which obscures the rest of Ullswater is Birkhouse Moor.