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: 50 minutes
Weather: Brighter than this morning, 14oC.
As it was a bit brighter this afternoon, we had another short walk up to Stickle Pike above Broughton Mills. We were joined by Connie after she was sprung from school for Easter at lunchtime – much better than sitting in a classroom I think!
Stickle Pike is described in Wainwright’s Stickle Pike chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 126.
Stickle Pike route map.
Great Stickle, left, and Stickle Pike, right, from Broughton Mills.
Caw from the ascent of Stickle Pike. This is the fell I have chosen for the Wainwright Society Great Lakeland Challenge in May. Incidentally, Eric Robson, chairman of the Wainwright Society, writer and broadcaster has chosen Stickle Pike.
Angus and Connie at Stickle Tarn.
The steep path to the summit of Stickle Pike.
Stickle Pike summit looking to Harter Fell.
Looking over Great Stickle and Tarn Hill along the Lickle Valley to the Duddon Estuary.
Harter Fell with a glimpse of Bow Fell through the clouds to the right.