Tina Codling is a qualified summer Mountain Leader who works all over the Lake District and beyond guiding people doing charity challenges and on walking holidays, as well as devising bespoke mountain days for families and groups of friends. She also works with young people doing their Duke of Edinburgh awards and community groups such as Muslim Hikers and Wonderful Wild Women. Since moving to Cumbria in 2019 she has enjoyed exploring the lesser-known parts of the Lake District National Park and the surrounding area and what she calls ‘the places in between’ the mountains. She is particularly interested in the economic and social history of the area and is fascinated by the seemingly unlimited number of different gate latches she finds on her walks. Over almost 40 years of walking and playing in the Lake District, she has ascended Helvellyn via all of the walking routes in all conditions, including at night, and has had a lot of fun looking for wild flowers in the coves and cooling her feet and body in icy waters. As a volunteer ‘dogsbody’ for the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs she spends a lot of time on the sides of fells or in remote valleys waiting to be ‘rescued’, which gives her plenty of time to dream up new adventures and routes. Mountain Walks Helvellyn is her first book. @tina.codling.mountain.leader

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• IntroductionAcknowledgementsAbout the walksNavigationSafety & well-beingWeatherKit & comfortMountain rescueBehaviour & respecting the environmentWalking with your dogHow to use this bookWainwrightsGlossaryThe Routes01 Glenridding to Aira Force02 Lanty’s Tarn circular03 Raven Crag04 Glenridding Dodd05 Gowbarrow Fell06 Sheffield Pike07 Grisedale Tarn from Patterdale08 Place Fell09 Birks, St Sunday Crag & Arnison Crag10 Helvellyn from Swirls11 Helvellyn via Raise Beck12 Sticks Pass to Helvellyn13 Catstye Cam, Swirral Edge, Helvellyn & the Keppel Cove pony track14 Helvellyn via Striding Edge and Swirral Edge15 Ambleside to Thirlmere via HelvellynAppendix