Start Point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)
Kiln Bank Cross – Stickle Tarn – Great Stickle (OF) – Tarn Hill (OF) – Stickle Pike (OF) – Kiln Bank Cross
Distance: 2.5 miles Total Ascent: 235 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 30 minutes Start Time: 16:00
Weather: Bright and breezy, 17°C
It was another lovely afternoon and I took the chance of a late walk to get up amongst the Dunnerdale Fells. This area is always beautiful, reasonably quiet and easy for me to get to for a shorter walk. This route will appear in Trail magazine later this year.
Twin peaks - Great Stickle and Stickle Pike from Broughton Mills.
Caw from the climb.
Stickle Tarn - beautiful.
Bring me sunshine.
Looking along the Duddon Valley to the high fells.
Caw and Grey Friar (in shadow) across Stickle Tarn.
Stickle Pike towering above the path.
The path to Great Stickle, the fell to the left.
The Matterhorn shape of Stickle Pike - it looks fantastic from the south.
The view from the climb to Great Stickle.
This couple I met were enjoying the views from Great Stickle today.
Looking towards the Duddon Estuary.
Great Stickle from Tarn Hill.
A lovely view across a tarn.
At the top of Tarn Hill.
Dougal and (windswept) Fletcher.
On the edge of the Tarn Hill ridge. In the clearing below right, where the path joins the area without bracken there is a small stone circle.
The stone circle.
Rainbow over Caw.
Scafells to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags with Harter Fell in the foreground from the foot of Stickle Pike.
Looking across virtually the whole route from the south top of Stickle Pike.
Stickle Pike summit.