Start point: Wasdale Head (NY 186 084)
Wasdale Head – Gavel Neese -Beck Head – North Top of Kirk Fell – Kirk Fell – Wasdale Head
Distance: 4.4 miles Total Ascent: 747 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes
Weather: Sunny but hazy, warming nicely but cold on tops. 10C in valleys.
Today I ended up on a fell I hadn’t set out to climb – I had in mind to climb Great Gable but when I climbed to Beck Head I remembered that Kirk Fell was one of the ones that Dougal hasn’t yet done (there aren’t many!) so as it was so near I decided to go for it. The sun was quite warm at times but the views were hazy – can’t grumble though, I think winter is over now and we will soon be in shorts. I walked part of the way to the foot of Gavel Neese with StridingEdge fan John – a Lord no less!
Kirk Fell from the track past St Olaf's Church.
Great Gable, like a smoking gun!
It looks like she will erupt, taken from Gavel Neese.
Kirk Fell across Beck Head and Beachhead Tarn - here I changed my mind and decided to climb Kirk Fell.
Great Gable from the climb.
There were some lingering patches of snow, here on the North Top of Kirk Fell.
Looking across Kirkfell Tarn to the main summit.
Hazy Pillar.
Kirkfell Tarn was still frozen.
Sunny but hazy looking across to the Scafells.
Looking back to the North Top and Great Gable.
Great and Green beyond North.
Mono Scafells.
Close up on Gable.
Dougal and Fletcher on Kirk Fell.
The Mosedale fells, from Red Pike to Pillar.
Yes Dougal, that is the way down.
Mosedale.
Yewbarrow.
It's that fell again - Great Gable from the steep descent.
Blah!
Looking down on Wasdale Head.
Looking back up the steep, steep path.
Kirk Fell from the bottom.
The packhorse bridge at Wasdale Head.