Start point: Birks Bridge, Duddon Valley (SD 235 992)
Harter Fell from Birks Bridge
Distance: 3.25 miles Total Ascent: 538 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 45 minutes
Weather: Overcast. 13C.
Harter Fell from the Duddon Valley is a great walk and a relatively easy ascent (if you like them straight up that is!). The views weren’t really there today as the tops were clouded in but it was nice to be back in the Duddon Valley, our families favourite.
Harter Fell route map.
The River Duddon.
Birks Bridge Falls.
Birks Bridge, a reminder of many happy summer days spent swimming here.
Grey Friar from Birks.
The view along the Duddon Valley to Wrynose Bottom. All the fells are clouded in this morning.
The back of the Coniston fells from the climb to Harter Fell.
Caw and Stickle Pike from Maiden Castle on Harter Fell.
The Duddon Valley and Wrynose bottom again, this time from higher up.
Climbing to the clouded top of Harter Fell.
Seathwaite Tarn and Tarn Beck across the Duddon Valley.
Casper can't contain his excitement (or his tongue!) on the summit of Harter Fell.
The true summit of Harter Fell from the official as the sunshine is trying to break through the cloud.
Below the cloud layer on the descent with a peep to Wrynose.
Stickle Pike and the Duddon Estuary.
There are brief spells of sunshine now, here with Caw and the Dunnerdale fells lit up by it.
Grey Friar and the River Duddon.