Start Point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)
Kiln Bank Cross – Stickle Tarn – Stickle Pike – Kiln Bank Cross
Distance: 1 mile Total Ascent: 105 metres Time Taken: 30 minutes Start Time: 09:10
Weather: Breezy, 10°C
The weather was really closed in and downright miserable this morning – we went to Stickle Pike with not too much hope of a dry walk but miraculously I reckon we got this done in the only dry half hour of the day. Always a nice jaunt up there though whatever the weather.
Heck Fell across the valley.
Stickle Tarn (spot the dogs?).
The path to the summit - steeper and further than it looks in this photo.
When I set off I could't even see Caw but when I looked behind the clouds had cleared to at least give a view.
A similar view from close to the summit.
Looking across to the main summit from the southern one...
...and the other way to Great Stickle and the Duddon Estuary.
Fletcher and Dougal.
The main summit cairn.
Caw and Stickle Tarn from the descent.
The Duddon Valley, Harter Fell with its head in the clouds and Green Crag to the left.
Ever had that sinking feeling? By the time we got down 5 minutes later the clouds had closed back in and the heavens opened - perfect timing Dougal!