Buck Barrow - Route One

 

Start - Corney Fell Road SD 150 896 Distance - 1.1 miles Ascent - 450 feet Time - 40 minutes

 

 

The walk starts from the summt of the Corney Fell Road where there is room to park for half a dozen cars on the wide verge
Kinmont Buck Barrow, Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow from the parking area
Setting out on the path to the summit which initially follows the course of a drystone wall 
Looking back towards Black Combe and Stoneside Hill
Kinmont Buck Barrow, Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow from the path alongside the wall
Black Combe
The wall turns to the north on reaching a sharp corner
Looking over to The Coniston Fells
Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow from the wall corner
Passing below Peg Crag
Looking back over Swinside Fell to the Furness Peninsula
The steepest part of this otherwise gentle ascent rises towards a rock outcop
Esk Pike, Bowfell and Crinkle Crags make an appearance
Black Combe from the rock outcrop
Beyond the rock outcrop the path turns away from the wall to cross the col between Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow
Great Paddy Crag from the climb to the col
Heading over to Buck Barrow, the main summit is on the left, the lower south top on the right with the rock turret in the centre all, are defended by an extensive band of rocks and large boulders. The first obective is to reach the low col between the main summit and the rock turret then traverse below the turret to the south top  
The south top from the climb to the col
Black Combe from the climb to the col
The distant Fairfield group of fells on the central horizon from the col 
Climbing up to the south top
The main summit and the rock turret from just below the south top
The Furness Peninsula and the Duddon Estuary from the south top
Stoupdale Head and Black Combe from the south top
Great Paddy Crag from the south top
Kinmont Buck Barrow from the south top
Great Gable, Scafell, Scafell Pike, Esk Pike, Bowfell and Crinkle Crags across Whit Fell
The Coniston Fells from the south top
The main summit from below the rock turret
A grassy rake on the eastern side of the main summit provides an easier start up to the top 
Buckbarrow Crag (Guide Crag) and Whit Fell from the grassy rake
Approaching the summit of Buck Barrow
Looking back from the climb to the summit
The Pennines on the horizon from the summit of Buck Barrow
The Dudddon Estuary over the rock turret and the south top from the summit of Buck Barrow
Black Combe from the summit of Buck Barrow
Kinmont Buck Barrow from the summit of Buck Barrow
Burn Moor from the summit of Buck Barrow
Whit Fell from the summit of Buck Barrow
The Coniston Fells from the summit of Buck Barrow

 

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