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Stickle Pike

Walked on 03/10/2008

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.

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Great Stickle and Stickle Pike across the Lickle Valley, Broughton Mills to the right.

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Caw and the Dunnerdale fells.

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Caw.

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Hesk Pike across the Duddon Valley.

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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.

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Casper at the foot of Stickle Pike, but we're not going up that way today.

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Caw from the top of the old quarry workings. Grey Friar is visible to the left.

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It's a cold wind up here but Casper still manages to get in Stickle Tarn for a dip.

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Stickle Tarn.

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Stickle Pike from the south.

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Sheep's eye view of Stickle Pike.

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Looking to Great Stickle and the Duddon Estuary from Tarn Hill.

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A tarn on Tarn Hill.

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Whit Fell, the Pike and Hesk Fell across the Duddon Valley from the top of Tarn Hill.

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The view from Tarn Hill.

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Scafell, Slight Side and Scafell Pike are in clear view beyond Harter Fell.

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The climb to Stickle Pike from the back way.

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The summit cairn on Stickle Pike from the southern cairn.

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Casperoo.

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The Duddon Valley.

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Stickle Pike summit.

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Casper seems quite interested in the view to the east...unless he has spotted an interesting sheep down there somewhere!

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The magnificent view of England's finest from the descent. Casper, what on earth are you playing at?

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