| Sheffield Pike - Route One |
| Start - Glencoyne NY 387 184 | Distance - 1.9 miles | Ascent - 1,710 feet | Time - 2 hours : 05 minutes |
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The track leading to Seldom Seen at the start of this walk. There's a car park to the north of the track and many lay-by parking areas to the south |
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| Looking over Glencoyne Park to Glencoyne Brow and Swineside Knott from the start of the track |
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| On the track to Seldom Seen |
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| Gowbarrow Fell and Ullswater from the track |
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| Birk Fell from the track |
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| Looking down to Glencoyne Farm |
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| As the track gradually turns below the tree covered slopes of Moss Crag Sheffield Pike comes into view for the first time |
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| Looking back to Ullswater |
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| Sheffield Pike from the approach to Seldom Seen |
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| Looking over to Glencoyne Head |
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| The track ends at Seldom Seen where a path continues on along the edge of Glencoyne Wood |
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| Passing Seldom Seen, a terrace of ten cottages which were originally miners' lodgings |
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| Sheffield Pike from the path above Seldom Seen |
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| Looking back to Ullswater from the path above Seldom Seen |
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| The path reaches a stile at the end of Glencoyne Wood and continues on alongside the wall towards Nick Head, the line probably taken by the miners of Seldom Seen to reach the upper levels of the Greenside Mine. This route crosses the stile and turns left to follow the wall enclosing Glencoyne Wood |
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| Looking back to Ullswater from the stile |
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| On the path climbing south-east above Glencoyne Wood |
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| Looking back to Glencoyne Head |
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| Looking up to Sheffield Pike from the path above Glencoyne Wood |
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| Approaching the top edge of Glencoyne Wood |
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| Looking back to Glencoyne Brow and Swineside Knott |
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| The path reaches a col with a view of St. Sunday Crag over the south-east ridge of Sheffield Pike |
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| Looking back over Glencoyne Park to Gowbarrow Fell from the col |
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| A small marker cairn indicates the start of a path which climbs to join the south-east ridge below the imposing peak of Heron Pike |
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| Looking back to Gowbarrow Fell from the start of the path to the south-east ridge |
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| Looking down to Glenridding Dodd from the climb to the south-east ridge |
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| Ullswater from the climb to the ridge |
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| Approaching the south-east ridge, looking down to the head of Ullswater and Patterdale |
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| Birkhouse Moor, Helvellyn and Catstycam from the south-east ridge |
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| Looking down the lower part of the south-east ridge to the head of Ullswater and Patterdale |
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| The lower reaches of Ullswater from the south-east ridge |
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| Helvellyn Lower Man, White Side and Raise from near the top of the south-east ridge |
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| Ullswater from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| Glenridding Dodd and Place Fell from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| Patterdale from Heron Pike |
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| St. Sunday Crag over the west ridge of Birkhouse Moor |
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| Birkhouse Moor, Striding Edge, Helvellyn and Catstycam from the summit of Heron Pike |
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| Helvellyn Lower Man, White Side and Raise from Heron Pike |
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| Great Mell Fell over the summit of Swineside Knott from Heron Pike |
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| The way ahead from Heron Pike along the broad heather-clad ridge. The actual summit of Sheffield Pike is just visible on the centre right |
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| Looking back to the top of Heron Pike from the summit ridge |
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| Approaching the summit of Sheffield Pike |
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| The summit of Sheffield Pike marked by a large cairn and an old estate boundary stone |
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| Looking back along the ridge, Place Fell in the middle distance backed by the ridge between Wether Hill and High Raise |
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| High Raise, Rampsgill Head, High Street, Thornthwaite Crag and Caudale Moor form the horizon |
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| The view south to Red Screes in the centre with St. Sunday Crag on the right |
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| Catstycam backed by Striding Edge and Helvellyn |
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| Sticks Pass flanked by Raise and Stybarrow Dodd |
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| The connecting ridge to Greenside over the col of Nick Head. The summit of Great Dodd appearing over the ridge to the right |
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| Ullswater from the summit of Sheffield Pike |
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