Cross Fell from Kirkland
Sat 17 May 2014
Route: Kirkland - High Cap - Cross Fell - Tees Head - Wildboar Scar - Wythwaite - Kirkland
Distance: 9.00 miles
Ascent: 2,300ft
Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Warm and sunny, cooler in the wind higher up
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Heading out of Kirkland
Looking across to Lakeland with Blencathra just right of centre
Lakeland - Fairfield, St Sunday Crag and the Helvellyn ridge
Black Doors
Cross Fell's summit comes into view
Looking back
The view north
...and to the north east
Cross Fell's summit
The cross shelter
South towards Great Dun Fell from on top of the cross
Looking back to the summit trig point and shelter
On of the large cairns with Cow Green Reservoir and Great Dun Fell with the radar station in the distance
Looking back from the next cairn
Over Tees Head to Little and Great Dun Fells
Turn right off the Pennine Way at the sign
Looking back
Little Dun Fell and Great Dun Fell
Lakeland from my descent
The view south from Wildboar Scar
Approaching Wythwaite
St Lawrence church, Kirkland
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