Start point: Stonestar (SD 202 912)
Stonestar – Great Stickle (OF) – Stickle Pike – Tarn Hill (OF)_- The Dunnerdale Fells – Stonestar
Distance: 4 miles Total Ascent: 502 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 35 minutes
Weather: Warm, becoming sunny at the end of the walk, 13oC.
We had a walk around the Dunnerdale Fells starting from Stonestar on the Duddon Valley road this warm afternoon. This is a lovely and quiet area – hard to find on a Good Friday afternoon I think! It also took in Stickle Pike and Stickle Tarn, the area we walked on Wednesday from the Lickle Valley side.
The walk was a hybrid of two Wainwright Outlying Fell walks. Stickle Pike is described in Wainwright’s Stickle Pike chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 126 and The Dunnerdale Fells are described in the Dunnerdale Fells chapter on page 132.
The Dunnerdale Fells route map.
The Pike across the Duddon Valley from Stonestar.
Looking down the rocky ravine along the Duddon Valley.
The Duddon Estuary from Great Stickle.
Stickle Tarn.
Walking on water?
Heavy clouds on Whitfell.
James and Angus on Stickle Pike.
Looking across to the mound that is 'The Dunnerdale Fells'.
The River Duddon.
The terraced path from Stonestar rising diagonally right to left.
The Dunnerdale Fells from the Duddon Valley.