Harrison Stickle

Name of walk Harrison Stickle
Date of walk 2006-04-06
Distance walked (miles) 4
Duration of walk 4 hours 0 minutes
Weather Sunshine
Peaks on walk Harrison Stickle
Walked with Ged and blind Kas
Parking NT car park.

Yesterday Tom was on a Church Youth Group trip so Ged and I decided to do a walk that We wouldn`t have been able to do with Tom. We decided on Harrison Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes at 2415 ft (736m).

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We started at the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and went up via Mill Gill. Harrison Stickle is top, middle-left. The car parking was for four hours only so we would have to watch the clock.

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Very uneven walking.

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Gill scramblers.

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Nearly there.

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View back down gill.

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Ged having a rest, Kas just above.

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Stickle Tarn with a view to Harrison Stickle. We had lunch here before we went for the summit.

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Me and Kas..

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Pavey Ark...Ged suggested we go up Jack`s Rake, a precarious path up Pavey Ark......dream on.

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We took the route off to the right, a scramble over boulders.

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Blue skies making the Tarn look really inviting.

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Finally up high enough to get all the Tarn in a photo. Blea Rigg behind the Tarn, and tucked in behind that is Easedale Tarn where we went on Monday.

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Pavey Ark looks very steep from this angle.

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Windermere and in front of this is Elterwater, leading in to Great Langdale Valley.

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Horizon from left to right...Great Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd, Helvellyn, Nethermost Pike, Dollywagon Pike, St Sunday Crag, Fairfield, Dove Crag.

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Top of the world?

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Esthwaite Water to the left. Centre is Blea Tarn. Wetherlam is back right.

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Horizon....Coniston Old Man, Swirl How, Great Carrs. Grey Friar with Pike o` Blisco in front of it. Cold Pike. Dome of Black Combe. Right is Crinkle Crags.

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Bowfell. Top of Scafell Pike in mist, then Great End. Right is Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Green Gable. Sticking up in the far foreground is Pike O` Stickle. We wanted to walk to here but needed to be down by three so couldn`t.

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Ged.

Got back to the car park with minutes to spare. So went off to Elterwater for a drink in the pub. Well deserved!
Jo
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