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The Fellwalker by Peter John Farnworth
WALK 28 TUESDAY MARCH 19th 1985Since we did not come all this way to walk Great End yesterday, I thought it would be a good opportunity to climb four more summits (which I had previously walked) for Mark’s sake, to enable him to log up.
On one of my very first visits to the Langdales, in 1977, I decided to walk to Pavey Ark via Stickle Tarn by following Milk Gill (stream). The path which I followed was very badly eroded at that time but on my return today with Mark I was very surprised to see all those stepped stones placed over the original path-way leading up to the Tarn. When you see fell walkers who are well prepared for a day on the fells walking up these stepped stones, it does seem to take the shine off things. Within the keeping of the area, it may have been better to have laid down a fine stone over the original path rather than constructing these stepped stones. I suppose something had to be done here because this is the number one spot where most new fell walkers come to see the splendour of the Lake District. The best part of walk for me started at Stickle Tarn, which led us over to the right of it, and we followed the ridge that then led us onto the summit of Sergeant Man. What a good high level walk over towards High Raise, which was lightly covered with snow. From here we crossed over to Thunacar Knott. Now this summit has no real height to it and if the mist were to come down when you were on your way here, you could very well walk past it without knowing it was there! This is another quiet place were the average fell walker would not come unless he was a peakbagger like us. But overall this was a very good walk with some splendid views. Mountains walked that day: Sergeant Man 69 Harrison Stickle 71 High Raise 57 Pavey Ark 88 Thunacar Knott 77 Diagram & Stats
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