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Name: | Kirk Fell |
Hill number: | 2383 |
Height: | 802m / 2631ft |
RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Western Fells |
County/UA: | Cumberland |
Catchment: | Calder & Ehen, Catchment Boundaries, Irt |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Wainwright, Birkett, Synge, Fellranger, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,Hew,N,W,B,Sy,Fel,BL,Bg,Cm) |
Grid ref: | NY 19495 10486 |
Summit feature: | large windshelter |
Drop: | 183m |
Col: | 619m NY205106 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 90 (1:25k) OL4S OL6N |
Survey: | obvious summit |
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GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 1319 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Day 6/38 of my Wainwright Challenge linking all 214 Wainwrights in one walk taking 38 days to mark my 70th Birthday. Today, solo, a circular hike from Honister Pass, traversing Honister Crag, Fleetwith Pike, Kirk Fell, Kirk Fell (E Top), Great Gable, Green Gable, Base Brown, Brandreth, Grey Knotts. A drier but cooler day, with good distant views. 19km with 1600m ascent taking 9 hours. | Alan_70+ | 17/04/2024 |
Dawn walk up Latrigg. Followed by hike from Seathwaite via Gable Climbers Traverse and Napes Needle to Kirkfell, Great Gable, Green Gable and Base Brown. Stunning weather, light and hike. | mavero10 | 15/10/2023 |
From Honister Mine. Grey Knotts, Brandreth, Base Brown, Green Gable, Windy Gap, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Windy Gap, Seathwaite Fell, return to Honister over Seatoller Fell. 13.5 miles/2200m ascent. With AvidSockWearer. /D | meltdiceburg | 09/09/2023 |
Finally! Fifty four years after my first Wainwright, this the last. I claim prize for slowest completion. Also my last FRCC summit. | coldfeet7 | 06/09/2023 |
English Nuttall Walk 3.1: Great Gable from Honister Pass. Visiting Honister Crag, Fleetwith Pike, Kirk Fell, Kirk Fell East Top, Great Gable, Green Gable, Base Brown, Brandreth, Grey Knotts. A perfect day in the Lakes with great views, although the amount of scree on Gable's steep slopes is rather tiring. 20km with 1600m ascent, taking 9 hours. | silverwolf_alan | 16/08/2023 |
Walked solo after staying overnight in Shepherds Hut near Scales. Weather drizzly but visibility okay. Parked at Seathwaite. Walked up waterfalls from Sourmilk Gill to pick up Base Brown. Then walked to Green Gable, bypassed Great Gable and did a there and back to Kirk Fell. I walked back directly under the crags of Great Gable, to miss the horrible scree path up to Windy Gap. | River-Girl | 06/07/2023 |
From Wasdale Head, Lingmell Beck to Sty Head via the Bursting Knott, climbers traverse Scrambling along threaded through Napes Needle, the flake under arrowhead ridge and Sphinx rock. Scramble down little hells gate to climbers traverse, hit Gavel Neese and scrambled over White Napes & on to Great Gable. Amazing clear 360 views all around the Lakes. Down to Windy Gap, up to Green Gable. Quick there and back to Base Brown to almost the top of GG, to Brandeth and Grey Knotts then back towards Beck Head and last slog up Kirk Fell. We were Rewarded with the alt view of GG and amazing vistas over the Scafell Massif. Heading NW off the back of KF, through gully of Kirkfell crags, Black Sail Pass into Wasdale Head. | ByronHaywood | 22/06/2023 |
Seathwaite -Base Brown-Green Gable-Great Gable-Kirk Fell | benarbia no 3 | 27/05/2023 |
Round of upper Wasdale from the NT car park at Lake End: Lingmell - Middleboot Knotts, corridor route to Sty Head, climber’s path across Gable to Beck Head - Kirk Fell E Top- Kirk Fell - Pillar- Black Crag-Scoat Fell-Steeple-Red Pike-Yewbarrow-Wasdale. 23km and 2000m of ascent | Rockdoctor | 07/05/2023 |
R K great weather | Richard Tait | 25/04/2023 |
From Black Sail Hut, up via Kirkfell Crags, then down via Rib End | jeffpl | 24/04/2023 |
Company: SC | iandesbottes | 02/04/2023 |
From Wasdale Head via Black Sail Pass, on to Kirk Fell East Top then back along the path by Gable Beck. 6.8 miles 4hrs 6 mins. Very strong winds and cloud at 600m. | CXB | 23/03/2023 |
With: hb; From Wasdale Head green up Mosedale to Black Sail Pass. Then up Kirkfell Crags and across to summit. Descent via Beck Head and Gavel Neese to Wasdale Head. | Ian Baines | 08/03/2023 |
R great day out | Richard Tait | 26/01/2023 |
Wainwright Walk 24: (Great Gable & Kirk Fell) | DavidHiner | 01/12/2022 |
MFMcL | john steel | 11/10/2022 |
Parked at Honister Pass NT car park. SIMMS on Nuttall 3.1. Brandreth -> Base Brown -> Green Gable -> Great Gable -> Kirk Fell East Top -> Kirk Fell ->Fleetwith Pike. | Peter_W_Mitchell | 22/07/2022 |
With Carl and the boys. Loop from Nether Wasdale. 4 miles 2500ft elevation. | nell1583 | 16/07/2022 |
With DW from Wasdale Head via Baysoar Slack. Top cloudbound so spent 20 mins gingerly walking the plateau to find it. Back down the crags to Black Sail along the fence line. My 50th Wainwright! | nukeboy1 | 24/06/2022 |
bob graham round recce. trod on lhs of ennerdale descent gully | JonathanConey | 18/06/2022 |
Part of a wander from Great Gable. | munkyennui | 18/06/2022 |
Ascent via SW path. Long hard slog. On to Great Gable | benarbia again | 27/05/2022 |
From Black Sail Pass. Quite a scramble but very enjoyable | trimarc2 | 11/05/2022 |
From Wasdale Head. 
10 km, 800 m asc. 
East to West. Up by Gavel Neese, Beck Head, Rib End and the East top and onto Kirk Fell summit. 
Down N by Kirkfell Crags to Black Sail Pass and Mosedale. 
Bright and Clear. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720298769825 | SalmonJoe | 08/05/2022 |
GL3D - day 2 | andy.painter | 01/05/2022 |
Completed as part of route from Keswick to buttermere on the great Lakeland 3 dayer | emily | 30/04/2022 |
R wild conds OS Challenge | Richard Tait | 03/02/2022 |
With Trout, up and down from Wasdale Head. | robba_wag | 02/02/2022 |
Exit from Black Sail | Jim Baz | 23/11/2021 |
From Honister Pass via Moses Trod. Penultimate Wainwright! | LANGDALE | 11/10/2021 |
Mosedale Horseshoe from Wasdale Head. The direct route up to Dore Head with a false start towards Stirrup Crag which we retreated from when we could not easily find the route. Down from Kirk Fell by the direct route. | Nab Scar | 29/09/2021 |
Parked at Honister Hause. Wet, slippery scramble up Kirk Fell Crags and followed fence posts in mist to summit. W181 Rnd6. | Dangerous Dave | 25/09/2021 |
Easy walk from Green Gable back to Beck Head. Long but fairly easy walk to Kirk Fell summit. Descent, however, was treacherous via Kirk Fell Crags down to Black Sail Pass. A long downhill descent to Mosedale. | philip_firth | 21/07/2021 |
Ennerdale wild camp day 2 | MrChris1980 | 13/07/2021 |
See Kamoot entry for full details/gpx download: 
https://www.komoot.com/tour/416618055 | outlawcatcher | 11/07/2021 |
Great day out. Did the Ennerdale round, anticlockwise. | siholden | 02/07/2021 |
Tom & Xiaohui's first wild camp | tomparkes | 02/07/2021 |
Parked at Wasdale Head, up past the church, Beck Head, Great Gable, Beck Head, Rib end, Kirk Fell and straight back down to car park. | Chipstertrain | 14/05/2021 |
A long ridge-walking day: Scafell Pike, Great End, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Pillar, Red Pike, Yewbarrow. 25km in 11h, 2400m total ascent | ytropek | 01/05/2021 |
R | Richard Tait | 15/04/2021 |
Neil & Zoe. | neilblair353 | 10/10/2020 |
With Sue on second round from Wasdale Head, interesting scramble up to summit of Kirk Fell. Return via Beckhead Tarn and Moses Trod to Wasdale. | Frank | 27/09/2020 |
HardenC | 19/09/2020 | |
Straight up from the south, top 1/3rd is loose scree but not that scary. Very tired after previous 10 hour day hike. Came down the Black Sail Pass to fish and chips in the Wasdale Inn! | Nick | 10/09/2020 |
From Wasdale Head via the Black Sail Pass, then on to the East Top and Great Gable. | NormanW | 14/08/2020 |
From layby at Honister Pass to Scoat Tarn via tops. With Ben. | axoree | 30/07/2020 |
me and Tommy | Paul Beard | 08/02/2020 |
date estimated | fellstoby | 01/01/2020 |
From Honister With FR | Bheinn | 19/11/2019 |