Start point: Stonestar (SD 202 912)

Stonestar – Great Stickle (OF) – Tarn Hill (OF) – The Dunnerdale Fells – Stonestar

Distance: 3.1 miles     Total Ascent: 358 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour 25 minutes

Weather: Overcast and breezy. 17°C.

Back to nearer home today with a walk up to the group of small, rough fells known as The Dunnerdale Fells lying between the Duddon Valley and Lickle Valley . The clear weather of yesterday has disappeared again and the rain was threatening but thankfully it stayed off. The bracken is noticeably turning brown now – we should know, we waded through enough of it today!

Dunnerdale Fells

Great Stickle ahead. The bracken is beginning to turn brown now.

The Pike across the Duddon Valley with a sunlit Hesk Fell behind.

The summit of Great Stickle, the Duddon Estuary in the distance.

Looking back to Great Stickle from Tarn Hill.

Stickle Pike from Tarn Hill.

A quizzical look on the Dunnerdale Fells.

The Pike through the thick Gorse on the rough descent.

The River Duddon.