Great Shunner Fell

[Broggy1]

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Finishing work at 1.30 meant that a late start was on the cards on Saturday and so it proved with me only pulling into Hardraw at 2.45pm.

I'd always imagined that I would do these two on a bad weather day for some reason so it was nice to be able to do the entire walk in shorts and t-shirt even if the long distance views were obscured by heavy haze.

There's not a great lot to say about the walk itself. It's a long but very easy (the easiest of all according to Wainwright) gradual walk up the Pennine Way to the summit of Great Shunner Fell. A few boggy bits to negotiate on the way but most of these covered by concrete slabs or by various bypass paths.

Pennine way out of Hardraw

The ridge to Great Shunner Fell in view now

Lovely Seat across the valley

Typical Pennine Way slabs help across some of the boggier bits

Summit in view

At the top there is a great stone built shelter with the Trig Point incorporated into it (I only found this out afterwards) which is a nice touch.

Great Shunner Fell summit

From here I followed a faint path alongside the fence over Little Shunner Fell and down to the road. This went through a few juicy bits but nothing too demanding with navigation easy enough by simply following the fence.

I followed the fence down to the road between Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat

Rogan's Seat - one still to do for me

From the road I followed the fence again over another wet area before doing a steeper short climb up to Lovely Seat where I was pleasantly surprised to find that the cairn was indeed a 'Lovely Seat'.

Lovely Seat from the road

Lovely Seat Summit

Looking back at Great Shunner Fell

A quick off path descent followed until I reached the road again which i followed all the way back down to the valley before cutting through a well marked and maintained field path back into Hardraw.

Road walk back

A decent afternoon walk - far from taxing due to the easy gradients - but long enough miles wise to give a good stretch of the legs after a busy morning at work.

[mrssanta]

Great stuff. Many yonks ago I went up Great Shunner Fell with a school group and some of us somersaulted much of the way down through heather with clouds of pollen flying about. it was memorable!

[simon-b]

I'm a bit late again, Broggy but that looks another good day. a few years ago some friends and I were on Great Shunner Fell on a navigation course. It was a bit hazy, but it looked like the views towards the Mallerstang fells and north Pennines must be good on a clear day.