Hazelhurst and Nicky Nook short visits Thu 12 Oct, Tue 17 Oct, Fri 27 Oct

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My cairn on Hazelhurst Fell

Thu 12th

I went to Stang Yule and walked again, as a fortnight ago, up to the cairn, this time without mislaying the walking pole. An enjoyable two hours.

Tue 17th

          Sunny again! But still a wind left over from the day before. I decided to get out while the weather, although forecast as being grey, was quite fair, and parked on Snowhill Lane below Nicky Nook Fell. I climbed easily to the track leading over to the large tarn (named simply The Tarn  on the map) which I circumnavigated.

It was windy on the top, but not really cold. I did, in reverse, the walk that Andrew and I had done the other week. The down side was walking up the road from Slean End back to the car after a stimulating, windy few hours out on the hill.

An unusually wide gate in Holme Wood

Fri 27th

A gloriously sunny morning! I felt I had to get out, so I set off for Stang Yule (where else?) and walked down the road to the cattle grid before Holme House. The foundation of an old building is there by very old gateposts, today surrounded by oozing mud.

Muddy gateway near Holme House

I had intended climbing up to Fiendsdale Head but I decided it was late (turned eleven certainly) to go all the seven miles round so I turned back along the intake wall as far as Coolam wood and zig-zagged up the track to the top road. Then, after paying a visit to my cairn I went down to Stang Yule.

Still as a sentinel

Fair Snape and Parlick

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