Route: Corney Fell road summit - Buck Barrow - Whitfell - Burn Moor - Kinmont Buck Barrow - Corney Fell road summit
Distance: 5.75 miles
Ascent: 1,100ft
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Hazy sunshine, very strong easterly wind.
We followed A. Wainwright's 'Whit Fell' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 156]
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Kinmont Buck Barrow and Buck Barrow from the summit of the Corney Fell road
Heading for Buck Barrow
Buck Barrow summit
The view south to Duddon Sands from Buck Barrow summit
Whitfell from Buck Barrow summit. The high fells were lost in the haze
Looking back to Buck Barrow as we contoured round Burn Moor
Whitfell summit
Stainton Pike and Yoadcastle from Whitfell summit
Looking back to Whitfell from Burn Moor
Buck Barrow and Kinmont Buck Barrow with Black Combe in the distance from Burn Moor
The view back to Burn Moor and Whitfell from the route up Kinmont Buck Barrow
Cairn on the top of Kinmont Buck Barrow
Great Paddy Crag, Buck Barrow
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