Cross Fell Circuit

DATE : 4th April 2006









Fine conditions at the start at Kirkland


Progressing along Kirkland Beck with Cross Fell up ahead


High Cap


View along Ardale Beck to the Northern Lakeland Fells


Close up of Great Dodd , Clough Head & Blencathra


To the north is Brown Hill


Approaching the Cross Fell summit area


View north from Cross Fell to Melbury Fell & beyond


Snow on the summit area


View along Black Burn to Alston


Dramatic clouds beyond the summit area


Cross Fell summit trig point & shelter


Elaberate cairn leading to Little & Great Dunn Fells


View east from Cross Fell


Little Dunn Fell with Great Dunn Fell beyond


Heading for Little Dunn Fell


Looking back on Cross Fell


Great Dunn Fell from Little Dunn Fell


Close up of Great Dunn Fell summit area


On Great Dunn Fell now looking to Little Dunn Fell & Cross Fell


View west across the Eden Valley to the Lakeland Fells


The summit is unfortunatly inaccessible as somebody has built some monstrosity on it


Snowstorm heads by Great Dunn Fell


And another over the Eden valley


The Dufton Hills receive a deluge


Little & Great Dunn hills on the descent


Another shower drifts past along the Eden Valley


Looking back towards Cross Fell from Ranbeck