Walk Information
Walk route: Birker Fell road - Devoke Water - Rowantree How - Woodend Height - Yoadcastle - Stainton Pike - Holehouse Tarn - Whitfell - Burn Moor - Buck Barrow - Corney Fell road [SD149896] - Stoneside Hill - Stoupdale Head - Black Combe - Whicham
Distance: 12.25 miles
Ascent: 2,700ft
Time: 5 hours 45 minutes
With: David Hall
Conditions: Some heavy showers, in cloud on Black Combe, did someone say it was August?
Route Map
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Photos
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The track to Devoke Water from the Birker Fell road
Devoke Water comes into view
The boathouse, Devoke Water
Looking across Devoke Water to Woodend Height
Looking back down on Rowantree How and Devoke Water
Looking across to Green Crag from Woodend Height
Woodend Height's summit cairn
Yoadcastle with Whitfell behind and Stainton Pike on the right from Woodend Height
Hesk Fell from Yoadcastle's summit
Stainton Pike with Whitfell in cloud behind
Heading for Stainton Pike's summit
Stainton Pike's summit cairn
Holehouse Tarn with Stainton Pike behind
Heading for Whitfell and its chucking it down
Whitfell's summit and we are in cloud
...but the cloud does lift a bit, looking back to Stainton Pike and Yoadcastle
The Esk estuary from Whitfell
Buck Barrow from Whitfell
Looking back to Whitfell from Burn Moor
Heading for Buck Barrow from Burn Moor
Burn Moor and Whitfell from Buck Barrow
Kinmont Buck Barrow from Buck Barrow's summit
Black Combe with Stoneside Hill in front and Stoupdale Head on the left from Buck Barrow
Kinmont Buck Barrow, Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow from the path to the Corney Fell road
Stoneside Hill from the Corney Fell road summit
South, our route, from Stoneside Hill
Charity Chair
Looking back to Stoneside Hill having crossed what Wainwright calls a swamp
It was wet, very wet! Lucky we crossed it on a sunny August day and it has not rained for the last month, ha, ha
Stoneside Hill, Buck Barrow and Whitfell from our ascent of Stoupdale Head
Stoupdale Head's summit cairn
Looking back to Stoupdale Head as we head up Black Combe and into the cloud
Black Combe's summit
Dropping down out of the cloud, the view south towards Walney Island
St Mary's Church, Whicham
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