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12th June 2010 - Cross Fell

Walk Details

​Distance walked: 12.4 miles

Total ascent: 2838 ft

OS map used: OL31 - North Pennines

Time taken: 7 hrs

Route description: Kirkland-Kirkland Hall-Ardale-Ironwell Band-Cross Fell-Little Dun Fell-Great Dun Fell-Knock Ore Gill-Silverband Mine-Hanging Shaw-Crowdundle Beck-Wythwaite-Baron's Hill-Kirkland

Cross Fell, Little and Great Dun Fells from Kirkland.

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St. Lawrence's church, Kirkland
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On the track beside Kirkdale Beck
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High Cap. The path runs under High Cap and into the valley of Ardale on the left.
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Views across the Vale of Eden to the Lake District fells....
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Black Doors at the head of Ardale
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Zooming in
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A couple of shots back to the Lake District fells..
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A few shots looking north from a cairn on the northern edge of Cross Fells summit plateau...
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On Cross Fell
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On the western edge of the summit plateau. Looking south along the Pennines.
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Views to the Lake District..
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Looking along the Pennines to the north
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Heading for Little and Great Dun Fells. The stretch of water on the left is Cow Green Reservoir.
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Cross Fell from Little Dun Fell
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View across to the Lake District
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A North Pennine view
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Cow Green reservoir and Great Dun Fell. The fell in the distance in the middle of the picture is Mickle Fell.
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On Great Dun Fell. I avoided taking a picture of the radar station.
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From Great Dun Fell I made my way down the access road and then along a track that leads to Silverband Mine. A view southwest to Wild Boar Fell and the Howgills. The pointed hill is Knock Pike.
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A distant Lake District
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Wildboar Scar and Cross Fell. I followed the wall across the side of the hill and then down to the left.
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The northern half of the Lake District..
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..and looking further south
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Knock Pike and Burney Hill
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On the bridleway from Wythwaite back to Kirkland and some pictures across the fields to the Pennines....
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One last picture across the Vale of Eden to the Lake District

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