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| A wide parking area above Uzzicar Farm on the Braithwaite ~ Buttermere road is the starting point for this walk |
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| Opposite the parking area an old mine road rises towards Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking back to Skiddaw from the mine road |
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| Rowling End on Causey Pike from the mine road as it approaches Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking across to Walla Crag backed by Clough Head and Great Dodd |
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| Catbells across the slopes of Rowling End |
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| Skiddaw and Blencathra from the mine road above Stonycroft |
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| The summit of Causey Pike comes into view as the mine road begins to turn to follow the course of Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking back towards Blencathra |
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| Carry on straight ahead where the road forks, the left branch leads only to site of old Stonycroft Lead Mine's smelter mill |
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| The mine road continues on for two miles to the site of an old cobalt mine which is situated on the slopes of Scar Crags beneath Sail Pass |
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| Looking back along the lower reaches of Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking up the summit of Causey Pike from the mine road |
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| Looking up to Barrow from the old mine road. There is a path which rises quite steeply from the old mine road to Barrow Door for a more direct ascent, but it's much easier to continue on the road for a further quarter of a mile before doubling back towards Barrow Door |
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| Looking back to the Helvellyn range above the summits of Bleaberry Fell and High Seat |
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| Causey Pike and the connecting ridge to Scar Crags across Stonycroft Gill |
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| Looking back towards Stile End and Barrow |
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| Looking back along Stonycroft Gill |
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| A marker cairn indicates the start of a path which traverses the slopes below Stile End to reach Barrow Door |
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| The old mine road continues on toward Sail Pass |
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| The Helvellyn range on the skyline from the marker cairn |
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| The path traverses the slope beneath Low Moss and Stile End for a little over a third of a mile to reach Barrow Door |
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| Helvellyn across the slopes of Rowling End |
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| Traversing across Stile End's southern slope |
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| Approaching Barrow Door |
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| Skiddaw from Barrow Door |
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| From Barrow Door a path crosses over a rocky spur at the end of Barrow's short south-west ridge |
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| Looking back over Barrow Door to Stile End |
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| Traversing across the rocky spur |
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| Looking across to Catbells from the rocky spur |
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| Barrow's south-west ridge from the end of the rocky spur |
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| Looking back to Outerside, Hobcarton Head, Grisedale Pike and Stile End |
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| Looking across to Bassenthwaite Lake and Skiddaw |
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| Looking back along the route of ascent |
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| The well worn path keeps to the western side of the south-west ridge |
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| Looking back over Stile End to Hobcarton Head and Grisedale Pike |
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| Bassenthwaite Lake with Barf on the left and the Ullock Pike ~ Long Side ridge on the right |
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| Higher on the south-west ridge |
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| Skiddaw across the steep north-western slope of Barrow |
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| Nearly there! |
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| There was a red grouse standing motionless by the path - we watched each other for quite some time, I suppose he must have thought he was camouflaged by the heather! |
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| Approaching the summit of Barrow |
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| The summit of Barrow |
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| The summit cairn on Barrow |
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| Keswick and Derwent Water from the summit of Barrow |
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| The Helvellyn range from the summit of Barrow |
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| High Raise, Maiden Moor, High Spy, Esk Pike, Great End, Dale Head, Hindscarth and Fleetwith Pike on the skyline above Rowling End |
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| Causey Pike from the summit of Barrow |
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| Scar Crags, Sail, Eel Crag, Outerside, Sand Hill and Hobcarton Head with Stile End in the near foreground on the right |
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| Hobcarton Head and Grisedale Pike over Stile End from the summit of Barrow |
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| Binsey across Bassenthwaite Lake from the summit of Barrow |
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| Skiddaw from the summit of Barrow |
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