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Stickle Pike

Walked on 01/01/2010

Start point: Kiln Bank Cross (SD 215 933)

Kiln Bank Cross – Stickle Tarn – Stickle Pike (OF) – Kiln Bank Cross

Distance: 1 mile     Total Ascent: 105 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Cold and clear. 2°C

We had a short walk today up to Stickle Pike to help blow away some of the Christmas cobwebs. It was a lovely morning, very still with no one around and we had great fun walking in the crisp snow and ‘daring’ to walk across the frozen Stickle Tarn.

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A brief moment of blue sky from Kiln Bank Cross looking over the road to Stickle Pike.

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Looking back along the road we came up which was treacherous sheet ice. To the south the cloud was building up and the sun was trying to break through it.

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Connie the mountaineer.

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Climbing higher with a strange, silhouetted figure in the background!

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Heading for Stickle Tarn.

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Winter sky across frozen Stickle Tarn.

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Winter at the edge of the tarn. Hmm, that ice looks quite thick...

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Me and Casper are on the ice but Dougally Doo is not quite so sure...

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...a quick look before a much quicker exit!

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Me and Connie practiced our ice skating on here.

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Climbing to Stickle Pike whilst Dougal eats the snow.

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The Duddon Valley remains frozen below whilst Wasdale looks as though it is getting some sunshine.

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Looking south to the Duddon Estuary across the south summit.

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Scafell and Slight Side.

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Winter sun over the Duddon Estuary, Barrow-in-Furness and Walney Island. On the horizon is the Barrow Offshore Wind farm (BOW).

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Casper, Dougal and Connie on the summit, Great Stickle behind. Looks like a snow shower passing over the estuary too.

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Looking to Caw from the descent and now the sun has come through once more.

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Stickle Pike.

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Back to Stickle Tarn.

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Reflected sun on the tarn now, Connie gives scale to the right.

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Caw and snowy Dunnerdale.

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Clearing to the south-east.

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A fish-eye view from the ice on Stickle Tarn.

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Caw from the middle of Stickle Tarn!

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Stickle Pike from the middle of Stickle Tarn.

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Four amigos with long shadows, even at midday - L-R me, Dougal, Connie and Casper.

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Hesk Fell across the Duddon Valley. Now for the hardest bit - driving back down the road...gulp!

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