Start point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)
Kiln Bank Cross – Stickle Tarn – Tarn Hill (OF) – Stickle Pike (OF) – Kiln Bank Cross
Distance: 2 miles Total Ascent: 195 metres Time Taken: 1 hour
Weather: Sunny with a cold wind. 9ºC.
It was lovely and sunny this afternoon, a real tonic after the rain of this week. I had a quick jaunt up to perennial favourite Stickle Pike; it is always a joy to walk around here and the beauty of it is you can make the walk as long (or as short) as you like, so I usually end up just making it up as I go along.
Great Stickle and Stickle Pike across the Lickle Valley, Broughton Mills to the right.
Caw and the Dunnerdale fells.
Caw.
Hesk Pike across the Duddon Valley.
Looking back down the path of ascent. In the distance are Scafell, Scafell Pike, Esk Pike, Bowfell and Crinkle Crags with Harter Fell in mid ground.
Casper at the foot of Stickle Pike, but we're not going up that way today.
Caw from the top of the old quarry workings. Grey Friar is visible to the left.
It's a cold wind up here but Casper still manages to get in Stickle Tarn for a dip.
Stickle Tarn.
Stickle Pike from the south.
Sheep's eye view of Stickle Pike.
Looking to Great Stickle and the Duddon Estuary from Tarn Hill.
A tarn on Tarn Hill.
Whit Fell, the Pike and Hesk Fell across the Duddon Valley from the top of Tarn Hill.
The view from Tarn Hill.
Scafell, Slight Side and Scafell Pike are in clear view beyond Harter Fell.
The climb to Stickle Pike from the back way.
The summit cairn on Stickle Pike from the southern cairn.
Casperoo.
The Duddon Valley.
Stickle Pike summit.
Casper seems quite interested in the view to the east...unless he has spotted an interesting sheep down there somewhere!
The magnificent view of England's finest from the descent. Casper, what on earth are you playing at?