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Stickle Pike

Walked on 27/11/2015

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.

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Heck Fell across the valley.

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Stickle Tarn (spot the dogs?).

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The path to the summit - steeper and further than it looks in this photo.

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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.

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A similar view from close to the summit.

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Looking across to the main summit from the southern one...

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...and the other way to Great Stickle and the Duddon Estuary.

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Fletcher and Dougal.

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The main summit cairn.

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Caw and Stickle Tarn from the descent.

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The Duddon Valley, Harter Fell with its head in the clouds and Green Crag to the left.

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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!

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