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Kirk Fell

Walked on 18/03/2015

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

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Kirk Fell from the track past St Olaf's Church.

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Great Gable, like a smoking gun!

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It looks like she will erupt, taken from Gavel Neese.

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Kirk Fell across Beck Head and Beachhead Tarn - here I changed my mind and decided to climb Kirk Fell.

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Great Gable from the climb.

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There were some lingering patches of snow, here on the North Top of Kirk Fell.

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Looking across Kirkfell Tarn to the main summit.

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Hazy Pillar.

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Kirkfell Tarn was still frozen.

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Sunny but hazy looking across to the Scafells.

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Looking back to the North Top and Great Gable.

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Great and Green beyond North.

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Mono Scafells.

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Close up on Gable.

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Dougal and Fletcher on Kirk Fell.

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The Mosedale fells, from Red Pike to Pillar.

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Yes Dougal, that is the way down.

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Mosedale.

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Yewbarrow.

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It's that fell again - Great Gable from the steep descent.

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Blah!

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Looking down on Wasdale Head.

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Looking back up the steep, steep path.

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Kirk Fell from the bottom.

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The packhorse bridge at Wasdale Head.

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