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| Name: | Kirk Fell East Top [Kirk Fell North Top] |
| Hill number: | 2387 |
| Height: | 787m / 2582ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2383 Kirk Fell |
| 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: | Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, Birkett, Synge, Buxton & Lewis, Bridge (Tu,Sim,Hew,N,B,Sy,BL,Bg) |
| Grid ref: | NY 19916 10699 |
| Summit feature: | cairn on rock |
| Drop: | 36m |
| Col: | 750.7m NY 1972 1069  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 90 (1:25k) OL4S OL6N |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 784 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| GuyF | 04/04/2387 | |
| 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 |
| yewbarrow | 25/02/2024 | |
| ketzster | 16/02/2024 | |
| Hootsjimmie | 08/01/2024 | |
| Christo1979 | 16/11/2023 | |
| 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 |
| jaggedlakes | 07/10/2023 | |
| 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 |
| coldfeet7 | 06/09/2023 | |
| vikita16 | 06/09/2023 | |
| GoldenCloud | 06/09/2023 | |
| RichardG | 18/08/2023 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Saz | 21/06/2023 | |
| Sprog | 10/06/2023 | |
| Nirobi99 | 03/06/2023 | |
| JackMoss98 | 17/05/2023 | |
| paul wilson | 16/05/2023 | |
| 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 |
| I'm sure I visited this summit the last time I climbed Kirk Fell in 1983, but I didn't treat it as a separate summit at that time and made no record of it, so it is good to revisit it and log the ascent. | CXB | 23/03/2023 |
| R | Richard Tait | 26/01/2023 |
| Wainwright Walk 24: (Great Gable & Kirk Fell) | DavidHiner | 01/12/2022 |
| ALHEJ Wilkins | 13/11/2022 | |
| MFMcL | john steel | 11/10/2022 |
| ac22 | 03/10/2022 | |
| daveyf2001 | 27/09/2022 | |
| John Kleiser | 05/08/2022 | |
| 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 |
| rhys.hexter | 16/07/2022 | |
| Part of wander from Great Gable. | munkyennui | 18/06/2022 |
| skeletonjo | 06/06/2022 | |
| Problem Child | 06/06/2022 | |
| Scott Morley 86 | 05/06/2022 | |
| Clach Liath | 04/06/2022 | |
| 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 |
| dickiewren | 24/04/2022 | |
| neilmcoward | 19/03/2022 | |
| adriancowl | 10/03/2022 | |
| Em's 2nd round | 05/03/2022 | |
| Si's 2nd round | 05/03/2022 | |
| matty1971b | 26/02/2022 | |
| peterforeman | 13/02/2022 | |
| JamesJolly | 20/01/2022 | |
| Sham Sharrock | 14/11/2021 | |
| On route to Kirk Fell | 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 |