Catstye Cam

View from Helvellyn via Swirral Edge Catstye on Cam

Catstye Cam is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains mentioned ( fur ) in the northern English Lake District National Park and is assigned to the Eastern Fells as a mountain of Helvellyn Range.

Name

The official notation on the maps of the Ordnance Survey is Catstye Cam. In addition, you will also find the spelling Catstycam, which is preferred by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, and Catchedicam, also mentioned by Wainwright.

In the interpretation of the name is believed that he kattr from the Old Norse names originated stigr and kambr and about ridge / shoulder with a steep (wild ) cats path means.

Geology

When rocks are found mainly pyroclastic rocks associated with tuff, breccia, lapilli and dacite as in the whole Helvellyn range.

Topography

The HEVELLYN Range -called mountain range located in north-south direction between Lake Ullswater in the east and Thirlmere in the west and runs north starting over the mountains Clough Head, Great Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd, Raise, White Side, Helvellyn Lower Man, Helvellyn and nethermost Pike to Dolly Waggon Pike as southern endpoint.

While the west side consists of grass-covered slopes, the east side is steep and rocky. Two well-defined ridges leading from Helvellyn to the east, Striding Edge and Edge Swirral that include a basin in which the small mountain lake is Red Tarn. Striding Edge offers one of the best known and most airy mountain tours in the Lake District that can be passed even without technical backup. The north of the Red Tarn located Swirral Edge is the link to the top of Catstye Cam.

The appearance of the Catstye Cam is from all angles considered a distinctive pyramid shape. Alfred Wainwright described him as one of the most beautiful mountains of the Lake District, "if he were alone without his higher and more prominent neighbors, because he has almost the perfect mountain shape with a very small narrow summit area and its around steeply sloping sides. "

Despite the connection to the higher Helvellyn by Swirral Edge of Catstye Cam still has a saddle height of 70 meters, which is remarkable for the conditions in the Lake District.

South of Swirral Edge is located in a valley Red Tarn, which got its name because of the surrounding red gravel. One finds in it brown trout and coregonids. In the mid-19th century, its capacity was increased with a dam of rocks, so as to form a water reservoir for the Greenside lead mines in the valley of Glenridding.

In the northern basin Brown Cove there was originally another lake, which also served as a water reservoir for the mines, whose dam is but become permeable and therefore accumulates no more water. On the northern slopes are still remains of the aqueduct from the 19th century to find that transported the accumulated water in the lead mines.

The effluent streams from Brown Cove and Red Tarn unite at the eastern foot of the Catstye Cam to Glenridding Beck and flow at Glenridding in the Lake Ullswater.

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  • Mountain in Cumbria
  • Mountain under 1000 meters
  • Lake District
England Coregonus
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