Stickle Pike

Walked on 07/09/2005

Start point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)

Kiln Bank Cross – Stickle Tarn – Stickle Pike (OF) – Kiln Bank Cross

Distance: 1 mile Total Ascent: 153 metres Time Taken: 30 minutes

Weather: A drizzly, grey morning. 16°C.

It was grey with drizzle this morning – there wouldn’t be any views, anywhere – so we went for a short walk up to our often visited favourite, Stickle Pike above Broughton Mills and the Duddon Valley. There was no company this morning either as the children are back at school, so it was back to the old team once again!

Looking along the Dunnerdale Fells to The Knott, low lying cloud hanging on the tops.

Stickle Tarn (where's Angus? - answers on a postcard please..!).

Even lowly Stickle Pike had its head in the clouds today.

Angus on the summit of Stickle Pike.

Great Stickle.

A swim in Stickle Tarn.

Latterbarrow

Walked on 22/08/2005

Start point: Colthouse (SD 360 988)

Latterbarrow (OF) from Colthouse

Distance: 1.5 miles Total Ascent: 143 metres Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Clearing but breezy. 17°C.

This morning I took Connie and Angy up to Latterbarrow above Hawkshead. After a grey and drizzly start to the morning, the skies surprisingly turned blue if somewhat breezy. Latterbarrow is a great and easily accessible little fell which offers superb views of higher ground.

Latterbarrow route map.

All this bracken sends me barking!

The impressive summit obelisk on Latterbarrow.

The Coniston fells.

The Crinkle Crags and Bow Fell.

The Langdale Pikes and High Raise.

Looking over Windermere to Ambleside.

The Eastern fells from Latterbarrow.

Gummer’s How

Walked on 10/08/2005

Start point: Gummer’s How Car Park (SD 390 877)

Gummer’s How Car Park – Gummer’s How (OF) – Gummer’s How Car Park

Distance: 1.2 miles Total Ascent: 150 metres Time Taken: 1 hours

Weather: Cloudy but very still and warm. 20°C.

It was very still and warm this morning for our walk up to the popular Gummer’s How. The high fells were mainly in cloud today but we had great views along the length of Windermere. The top was populated not with people today, but irritating flies – thousands of them! This meant we didn’t hang around for too long…

Gummer's How route map.

The steep stone staircase to Gummer's How.

Red Screes and Caudale Moor at the head of Windermere from the summit of Gummer's How.

Angus and Connie have a rest.

Looking along the length of Windermere.

The Coniston fells, the scene of last Fridays walk, now covered in cloud.

Lakeside at the southern end of Windermere and the outflow, the River Leven.

A close up of a steamer at the Lakeside jetty.

Hurry up!

The steamer pulls away for a cruise along Windermere.

Gummer's How.

Irton Pike

Walked on 01/08/2005

Start point: Old Quarry car park (NY 121 012)

Old Quarry car park – Irton Pike (OF) – Old Quarry car park

Distance: 1.3 miles Total Ascent: 125 metres Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Dull but warm and still. 18°C.

It was grey and overcast yet again this morning but very still and warm, the peacefulness shattered by many RAF jets screaming overhead today. We had a walk up to Irton Pike above Eskdale, the easy walk was made harder by the amount of trees still lying across the paths around the afforested base of Irton Fell.

Irton Pike route map.

Ascending Irton Pike through the forest - plenty to bark at here.

The long shape of Muncaster Fell from Irton Pike.

Sellafield and the west Cumbrian coast.

On the summit of Irton Pike looking to Wasdale Head.

Looking down to Parkgate Tarn.

Wasdale Head from Irton Pike.

Across Eskdale to Harter Fell and the Coniston fells.

Great Gable makes a brief appearance from the clouds.

Irton Pike.

Hugill Fell

Walked on 04/05/2005

Start point: Barley Bridge, Staveley (SD 470 987)

Hugill Fell (OF) from Staveley

Distance: 1.6 miles Total Ascent: 160 metres Time Taken: 30 minutes

Weather: Sunny and warm. 15°C.

I was in Kendal at lunchtime, the sun was shining so I took the opportunity to try and dry out after yesterdays damp affair and headed up to the Wainwright Outlying fell, Hugill Fell from Staveley. A nice and easy one this with some great views, especially when the sun shines.

Today’s short walk follows Wainwright’s Hugill Fell chapters in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 22.

Hugill Fell route map.

Brunt Knott over Kentmere Valley.

The head of Kentmere and the Kentmere Horseshoe.

View of the distant high fells from Hugill Fell; the Coniston fells to the left, the Langdales to the right.

The summit of Hugill Fell.

The River Kent flows over the weir at Barley Bridge, Staveley.

Hampsfell

Walked on 29/03/2005

Start point: Grange Fell road (SD 396 779)

Hampsfell (OF) from the Grange Fell road

Distance: 2 miles Total Ascent: 200 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 30 minutes

Weather: Warm and sunny, 11°C.

Lying between Grange-over-Sands and Cartmel, Hampsfell is an elevated ridge of Limestone overlooking the Kent Estuary and Morecambe Bay. It was an easy and pleasant stroll this morning in the sunshine from the Grange Fell road up to the crowning glory on the summit – a tower called The Hospice.

Hampsfell is described in Wainwright’s Hampsfell chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 58.