Rock-climbing in the English Lake District . f Lano^dale, and the highest point,Harrison Stickle, is a prominent object in many afavourite landscape. Harrison Stickle is splendidly shaped, andmanages to give an impression of much greater heightthan it really possesses (2,401 feet). Half a mile to thewest is the Pike of Stickle or the Sugarloaf. It hasa little climbing on the west face. Mr. Gwynne writesof it thus : The Sugarloaf itself is a very fine peak,that, viewed from the valley, has very inuch theappearance of the Monch. It runs down towardsthe Stake Pass in a spur, which must be the sta
Rock-climbing in the English Lake District . f Lano^dale, and the highest point,Harrison Stickle, is a prominent object in many afavourite landscape. Harrison Stickle is splendidly shaped, andmanages to give an impression of much greater heightthan it really possesses (2,401 feet). Half a mile to thewest is the Pike of Stickle or the Sugarloaf. It hasa little climbing on the west face. Mr. Gwynne writesof it thus : The Sugarloaf itself is a very fine peak,that, viewed from the valley, has very inuch theappearance of the Monch. It runs down towardsthe Stake Pass in a spur, which must be the starting-point of most of the climbs on this mountain. Thereis a curious gully here, which is worthy of theclimbers attention. It does not run from top tobottom, but suddenly begins about the middle of thecrag. The difficulty is to get at this gully, and somepretty climbing can be obtained in the attempt. Somewhat south of the mid-point betweenHarrison Stickle and the Sugarloaf is the summit ofGimmer Crag. It overlooks the old hotel of Dungeon. PAVEY ARK 209 Ghyll, and offers in dry weather a considerableamount of indiscriminate scrambling. One of the finest little tarns of the district lies900 feet below the summit of Harrison iStickle, on itsnorth-east side. Stickle Tarn is almost as solitary asEasedale, and its surroundings are decidedly is about an hours walk from Dungeon Ghyll, bya small footpath keeping close to the stream thatis fed by the lake waters. The view across the tarnis a delight to climbers eyes. The great cliffs ofPavey Ark, rising 700 feet above the lake, aredarkly reflected in the still waters. They are deeplycut by two gullies that immediately arrest marks a little notch in the sky-line. A thirdnotch further to the left indicates the head of aslighter indentation in the face of the cliff, which, sofar as I know, has not yet been explored. The right-hand Great Gully was first climbed by HaskettSmith in the summer of 1882. The left, calle
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