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Burn Moor - Route One

 

Start - Corney Fell Road SD 150 896 Distance - 1.9 miles Ascent - 645 feet Time - 1 hour

 

 

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 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
Buck Barrow from the col
Burn Moor from the col between Great Paddy Crag and Buck Barrow 
Kinmont Buck Barrow fro the descent from the col
Whit Fell, Bowfell, and Crinkle Crags across the foot of Buckbarrow Crags
Looking back to Buck Barrow and Great Paddy Crag
Burn Moor from the descent to the wide col between Littlecell Bottom and Sele Bottom
Looking over towards Kinmont Buck Barrow
Looking over towards Crinkle Crags, Helvellyn and the Coniston Fells
Great Gable and Scafell appear over the col between Burn Moor and Whit Fell
An isolated rock outcrop occupies the otherwise grassy col under Burn Moor 
Looking back to Buck Barrow from the rock outcrop
Burn Moor from the rock outcrop
Shortly after passing the rock outcrop the path splits, keep left to begin the direct ascent to the summit
The right branch contours the eastern slope towards the col between Burn Moor and Whit Fell
Looking back to Buck Barrow, Great Paddy Crag and Kinmont Buck Barrow from the path to the summit
The Furness Peninsula from the path to the summit
The gently rising path to the summit of Burn Moor
Looking over towards the Coniston Fells
The summit of Burn Moor comes into view
The Duddon Estuary and Buck Barrow
The path diverts slightly to the left towards a rock outcrop which is surmounted by a cairn
Whit Fell and the Coniston Fells over the summit plateau
Approaching the rock outcrop
The simple cairn on top of the rock outcrop
The path turns back towards the main cairn on the summit 
The summit cairn on Burn Fell
The Western Fells from the summit of Burn Moor
The Scafell group on the centre horizon from the summit of Burn Moor
Whit Fell and the Coniston Fells from the summit of Burn Moor
The lower part of the Duddon valley from the summit of Burn Moor
The Duddon Estuary from the summit of Burn Moor
Buck Barrow, Great Paddy Crag, Black Combe and Kinmont Buck Barrow from the summit of Burn Moor
A few yards to the west is another, larger, cairn which overlooks Sele Bottom
Whit Fell from the larger cairn

 

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