Pike of Stickle

Written and walked by Lee McCoy · Summited June 2024

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Pike of Stickle at 708m (2,324ft) is the most distinctive of the Langdale Pikes — a soaring, pointed summit of volcanic rock that thrusts skyward above the head of Langdale.

Summit conditions on Pike of Stickle

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 11° to 5°C, gusts to 58 mph, 12.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

61 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 50 mph times our exposure factor of 1.21. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 58 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Cloud on the top

Past the line

11 out of 100, the clear-top reading

Averaged over the daylight hours, from the forecast’s humidity and low cloud.

The line Our line: a clear-top reading under 20 out of 100, where our scorer says “summit likely clagged in”. There is no outside threshold to cite; it is our estimate. What cloud does to finding the way: navigating in cloud.

Not an observation: cloud lifts and drops within the hour.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

12.7 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like 0 °C, no ice or snow forecast. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Routes up Pike of Stickle

Choose the way up before the car park: these two routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Compared	Langdale Pikes Round	Langdale Horseshoe
Starts from	Great Langdale (New Dungeon Ghyll)	Great Langdale (New/Old Dungeon Ghyll)
Distance and climb	12.12 km, 884 m of climb	20.9 km, 1,770 m of climb
Time, fast to steady	~3¾–5¼ h	~7–9½ h
Scrambling	Easy scramble: Pike of Stickle's summit rocks, up and back (km 9.1–9.3). Avoid Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark unless you're a confident scrambler — the walkers' route reaches the same summit.	Easy scramble: Pike of Stickle's summit rocks (km 5.1–5.2). A short, awkward rock step that turns a walk into a scramble and regularly stops people dead.
Exposure	Moderate	Hard
Navigation	Hard	Hard
Steepest stretch	Climb of about 39% at 1.0 km (Severe)	Descent of about 40% at 17.9 km (Severe)
After the summit	Over Loft Crag and Thorn Crag	Over Black Crags (Mickleden), Rossett Pike, Bowfell, Shelter Crags, Crinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle), Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle, Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle), Crinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle), Cold Pike and Pike of Blisco
Walked or planned	Walked by Lee, June 2024	Planned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the start	New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid)	Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid)
Bus to the start	516 at the start	516 at the start

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

How hard is Pike of Stickle?

The shortest way up we hold is Langdale Pikes Round — 12.12 km, 884 m of ascent, ~3¾–5¼ h. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Severe.

All axes: steepness: Severe · navigation: Hard · length: Moderate · exposure: Moderate · terrain: Not assessed.

These are the route page’s grades, set by the rules on how we grade: length and steepness measured from its GPX track, the others set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap. The route page says which. How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 708 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast

Tue 27 Oct

11° / 5°

58 mph

12.7 mm (100%)

Wed 28 Oct

8° / 5°

43 mph

17.9 mm (100%)

Thu 29 Oct

8° / 6°

28 mph

0.8 mm (75%)

Fri 30 Oct

7° / 5°

25 mph

0.9 mm (8%)

Sat 31 Oct

7° / 3°

6 mph

3.0 mm (6%)

Sun 1 Nov

7° / 2°

14 mph

0.0 mm (2%)

Mon 2 Nov

5° / -1°

9 mph

0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 20:59 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Pike of Stickle

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Langdale Pikes Round (straight line)

Walking base for Sergeant Man, High Raise (High White Stones), Thunacar Knott and Pavey Ark — the 'Langdale Pikes Round' route starts 127 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Horseshoe'. Fees: pay and display at the machine; whether it takes cards is not published (the Authority's machine records, FOI/2026.500).

Directions When people arrive, and what it costs →Something changed here?

Public toilets (~133 m straight line) — Free

Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Langdale Horseshoe (straight line)

Walking base for Pavey Ark, Harrison Stickle, Thorn Crag and Loft Crag — the 'Langdale Horseshoe' route starts 67 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Pikes Round'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked August 2026). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged). Height barrier (community-reported). Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km); Blea Tarn (NT, paid) (3.2 km, 93 m up)

Public toilets (~147 m straight line) — Free

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 1.7 km from summit (straight line)

Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes. Free for NT members (checked August 2026).

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km, 24 m up); Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) (0.8 km) a few spaces only; Side Pike (verge) (0.8 km) a few spaces only

Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel Sticklebarn

2 more places to park near Pike of Stickle

Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)

On the valley road, between the Stickle Ghyll and Old Dungeon Ghyll car parks. The 'Langdale Horseshoe' route starts 370 m away.

Directions Something changed here?

Side Pike (verge) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)

0.9 km from Side Pike.

Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at New Dungeon Ghyll from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 33% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 516 stops at New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a 140 m walk from the start of Langdale Pikes Round — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness). As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (516): Tuesday to Thursday, Sunday 20:13; Friday and Saturday 22:33. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 23 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”

Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll

Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)

The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Pike of Stickle

Hazard & Incident Information for Pike of Stickle

Checked by Lee McCoy, 14 June 2026. Draws on published material from Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

A striking, steep-sided rocky dome — one of the Langdale Pikes — whose summit is gained by a short but genuine scramble, and whose great south scree gully is loose, steep and fast, where a slip can cause serious injury. The steep ground all around demands care in cloud.

The Pike o' Stickle screes / south gully: The steep scree gully on the south side is loose, steep and fast, and a slip or 'scree running' here can cause serious head, back and leg injuries. Do not scree-run it or use it as a descent; go back the way you came.
The summit scramble: The final few metres to the top are a short rock scramble — straightforward for the confident in the dry, but exposed and awkward when wet or icy, and a fall from it would be serious. Use hands, test holds, and don't commit if unsure.
Steep flanks & plateau navigation: The cone falls away steeply on all sides, and the broad Langdale Pikes plateau around it is easy to misread in mist (steep ground toward Langdale and Mickleden). Keep back from the edges and navigate by compass between the Pikes.

Who should attempt this fell: Pike of Stickle packs real steepness into a small fell. Treat the south screes with respect — never scree-run or descend them — and take the short summit scramble steadily, avoiding it in the wet or in ice if you're not confident. Keep clear of the steep edges and navigate the plateau by compass in cloud. Full winter competence when there is snow or ice on the rock.

What to watch for: Slips and falls on the steep south scree gully, including from 'scree running' · Falls on the short summit scramble, especially when wet or iced · Walkers straying onto steep ground off the plateau in cloud · Underestimating the steepness of a small but rocky peak

Local Mountain Rescue: Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab)

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information (opens in new tab)

Navigating in cloud

Not graded by the model

Our terrain model finds nothing to grade on this summit, so it gives no cloud grade here — that is not a sign of easy navigation. Read this fell’s hazard notes and the route pages before a day in cloud. Carry map and compass, and know how to use them.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Pike of Stickle compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Pike of Stickle

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.6 km ESEThorn Crag644 m · Central

1.9 km SWWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern

2.0 km WNWBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern

2.2 km WBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

2.3 km NECodale Head732 m · Central

2.7 km SESide Pike362 m · Southern

2.8 km NNELow White Stones731 m · Central

Routes over Pike of Stickle

Langdale Horseshoe

Summits: Pavey Ark Harrison Stickle Thorn Crag Loft CragPike of StickleBlack Crags (Mickleden)Rossett Pike Bowfell Shelter Crags Crinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)Crinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)Cold Pike Pike of Blisco

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Picked for its light in: June, August

Warnings: The Bad Step (Crinkle Crags, Long Top). A short, awkward rock step that turns a walk into a scramble and regularly stops people dead. There is a bypass path round its west side, on your right as you come south off Long Top — use it if you are unsure. Do not attempt Jack’s Rake on Pavey Ark unless you know what you are taking on. It is a graded scramble with real exposure, not a path. The walkers’ line goes round. 21 km, 1,660 m and fifteen tops. This is a full, committing day. Start early, and decide your turn-back time before you leave the car. The Crinkles are the classic place to descend the wrong side in cloud. Know which valley you want before you are in it. Bowfell: The rocky top has crags on several sides and the paths are not always obvious in mist; know your bearing for the descent before you set off. Loft Crag: The small abrupt summit stands right above Gimmer Crag, a sheer climbing buttress falling to Langdale. Keep well back from the southern edge near the top, especially in cloud or wind — and if scrambling on the south side, be aware climbers may be on the crag below.

From the hazard notes for Loft Crag · Bowfell, each with its sources.

Route guide: Langdale Horseshoe →

Langdale Pikes Round

Summits: Sergeant Man High Raise (High White Stones)Thunacar Knott Pavey Ark Harrison SticklePike of StickleLoft Crag Thorn Crag

Download GPX Walked by Lee, June 2024

Best season: Any season in good conditions; the plateau behind the Pikes is featureless in cloud.

Warnings: Avoid Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark unless you're a confident scrambler — the walkers' route reaches the same summit. Boggy ground and confusing navigation on the High Raise and Sergeant Man plateau in mist. Steep, rocky ground around the Pikes. Loft Crag: The small abrupt summit stands right above Gimmer Crag, a sheer climbing buttress falling to Langdale. Keep well back from the southern edge near the top, especially in cloud or wind — and if scrambling on the south side, be aware climbers may be on the crag below. The boggy plateau has few landmarks, and the sheer drops of Pavey Ark and Harrison Stickle lie close by. In mist a wrong bearing off Thunacar Knott can take you to a cliff edge. Navigate carefully by compass and know where the crag edges are before you move.

From the hazard notes for Loft Crag, each with its sources.

Route guide: Langdale Pikes Round →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Pike of Stickle

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Langdale Horseshoe route:

possible water source (5 m off the line) possible water source (6 m off the line) possible water source (81 m off the line) toilets (10 m off the line) toilets (11 m off the line) New Dungeon Ghyll (144 m from the start, straight line)

On the Langdale Pikes Round route:

possible water source (7 m off the line) shelter (weather shelter, mapped, not checked; 6 m off the line) New Dungeon Ghyll (110 m from the start, straight line)

Treat water from the fell before you drink it. A mapped point is not proof the water is drinkable, so carry your own or use a supply you know is safe. Never drink untreated from a beck, stream or tarn — even clear-looking hill water can carry giardia or cryptosporidium from livestock upstream and leave you seriously ill. Use a treatment method suited to what might be in the water, and follow the device’s own instructions. Boiling and ordinary filters do not make water with dissolved metals or chemicals safe: where that is possible, choose another source.

About Pike of Stickle

Wainwright described it as the most shapely and exciting of the four Langdale summits, its steep sides and pointed top making it recognisable from miles away. The ascent from Stickle Tarn is a short, steep scramble, and the summit views — particularly down into the deep hollow of Dungeon Ghyll and across to Harrison Stickle — are magnificent. Near the summit is one of the finest Neolithic stone axe factories in Britain.

My Strava hikes over Pike of Stickle

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

8 Wainwrights today - had some catching up to do! (opens in new tab) — 14.5 km · 1013 m ascent · 4h 23m moving · 1 June 2024

Data from Strava.

Classifications & hill data

Is Pike of Stickle a Wainwright?

Pike of Stickle is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

708 m

Height

2,324 ft

In feet

NY 2739 0735

Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from Pike of Stickle

The 360° skyline from Pike of Stickle

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

drag to pan · arrow keys

The skyline as a list, by direction

North: Knowe Crags (20 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (20 km), Skiddaw Little Man (20 km), Gategill Fell Top (20 km), Skiddaw South Top (21 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (22 km), Skiddaw (22 km), Skiddaw North Top (22 km)
North-east: Dollywaggon Pike (9 km), High Crag (9 km), Fairfield (10 km), Cofa Pike (10 km), Nethermost Pike (10 km), Helvellyn (10 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (10 km), White Side (11 km), St Sunday Crag (11 km), Gavel Pike (12 km), Raise (12 km)
East: Hart Crag (10 km), Dove Crag (10 km), Thornthwaite Crag (16 km), High Street (17 km), High Raise (18 km)
South: Swirl How (7 km)
South-west: Crinkle Crags (3 km), Crinkle Crags (4 km)
West: Allen Crags (4 km), Great End (5 km), Scafell Pike (6 km), Kirk Fell (8 km)
North-west: Looking Steads (4 km), Glaramara (4 km), Green Gable (7 km), Great Gable (7 km), High Stile (13 km), High Stile (13 km), Crag Hill (15 km), Grasmoor (16 km), Grisedale Pike (17 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Snowdon (167 km, Wales), Carnedd Llewelyn (155 km, Wales), Moel Siabod (163 km, Wales), Arenig Fawr (176 km, Wales), Tinto (131 km, Scotland), Green Lowther (111 km, Scotland), Queensberry (97 km, Scotland), Culter Fell (124 km, Scotland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Pike of Stickle

Pike of Stickle sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (at midsummer) first light is only 11 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:48 BST ±5.0 min	04:37	+11 min
Equinox	06:19 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	+3 min
Midwinter	08:27 GMT ±5.0 min	08:33	-6 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean 0.33°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Pike of Stickle

Pike of Stickle loses the sun early. Its earliest evening of the modelled year falls on 1 March, when last light is 26 minutes before almanac sunset — 17:23 against 17:49. The sun goes down to the west-south-west from here (253.1°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 3.35°.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:45 BST ±5.0 min	21:52	-7 min
Equinox	18:08 GMT ±5.0 min	18:26	-18 min
Midwinter	15:30 GMT ±5.0 min	15:49	-19 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Pike of Stickle

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

71Wainwrights in view+18 marginal

167 kmFurthest sightlineSnowdon (Yr Wyddfa) · possible under favourable refraction

2Sea in viewSolway Firth, Morecambe Bay

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Wales.

Far horizons

Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) WalesSSW · 167 km clear
Carnedd Llewelyn WalesSSW · 151 km clear
Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 58 km clear
Solway Firth bay/estuaryNNW · 58 km in view
Whernside Yorkshire DalesESE · 53 km clear
Morecambe Bay bay/estuarySSE · 40 km in view

All 71 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Loft Crag, Harrison Stickle, Thunacar Knott, Pavey Ark, High Raise (High White Stones), Rossett Pike, Bowfell, Pike of Blisco, Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle), Esk Pike, Allen Crags, Cold Pike, Sergeant's Crag, Lingmoor Fell (Brown How), Glaramara, Eagle Crag, Great End, Silver How, Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot, Scafell Pike, Great Carrs, Wetherlam, Swirl How, Green Gable, Great Gable, Grey Friar, Great Crag (Stonethwaite), Loughrigg Fell, Holme Fell, Seat Sandal, Kirk Fell, Great Rigg, Black Fell, Grange Fell (Brund Fell), Dollywaggon Pike, Fairfield, Dale Head, Dow Crag, High Spy, Nethermost Pike, Hart Crag, High Seat, St Sunday Crag, High Crag (Buttermere), Robinson, Bleaberry Fell, Cat Bells (Catbells), High Stile, Baystones (Wansfell), Ard Crags, Causey Pike, Scar Crags, Sail, Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Sour Howes, Grasmoor, Yoke, Sallows, Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Lonscale Fell, Dodd (Skiddaw), Barf, Skiddaw Little Man, Lord's Seat, Carl Side, Long Side, Ullock Pike, Skiddaw, Knott, Binsey

How the view from Pike of Stickle compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Pike of Stickle. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

From Great Langdale: 3 places in Grasmere

Frequently asked questions about Pike of Stickle

Is Pike o’ Stickle a scramble?

Yes — a short one, but a genuine one. The last part of the steep rocky dome is hands-on, and while it is over quickly it is the real thing rather than an awkward step. If you are not comfortable with that, the view from the shoulder is most of the view.

The more important answer is about coming down. Do not descend the great south scree gully. It is loose, it steepens out of sight, and it is the classic mistake on this fell — go back the way you came. Our Langdale Pikes round takes it in over 12.1 km with 884 m of ascent, rated Severe overall for its steepness.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Pike of Stickle

Summit conditions on Pike of Stickle

Wind on the top

Cloud on the top

Rain, and the becks

Routes up Pike of Stickle

How hard is Pike of Stickle?

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Parking & buses for Pike of Stickle

Parking

Buses

Hazards on Pike of Stickle

Hazard & Incident Information for Pike of Stickle

Navigating in cloud

If you need Mountain Rescue

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Birketts within 3 km of Pike of Stickle

Routes over Pike of Stickle

On the hill: terrain and water on Pike of Stickle

Water & shelter on the way up

About Pike of Stickle

My Strava hikes over Pike of Stickle

Classifications & hill data

Is Pike of Stickle a Wainwright?

Selected lists

The view from Pike of Stickle

The 360° skyline from Pike of Stickle

Sunrise and sunset on Pike of Stickle

Last light — when the sun leaves Pike of Stickle

What you can see from Pike of Stickle

Places to stay near this fell

Frequently asked questions about Pike of Stickle

Other fells near Pike of Stickle