good parking below Irton Pike so I did the road walk first - looking back to Irton Pike

on this beautiful morning even the road walk was pleasant

Irton Road station - unfortunately it was one and a half hours before the first train

the start of the path onto Irton Fell

looking back down the path through the woods

the path ascending through more open territory

emerging onto the ridge with Irton Pike now below westwards

Middle Fell, Red Pike and Yewbarrow from the ridge

Seatallan and Buckbarrow from the ridge

looking down the ridge to Irton Pike

some of the cows who are messing up this ridge path, looking to Yewbarrow and Kirk Fell

this heap of stones, which mystified AW, is now marked on the map as Cairn Circle

zooming in on Yewbarrow, Kirk Fell and Great Gable

view east down the path leading to the top of Irton Pike

zooming in on Yewbarrow, Kirk Fell and Great Gable from the slopes of Irton Pike

another shot eastwards down the path onto Irton Pike

looking westwards over the West Cumbrian plain from Irton Pike summit

Muncaster Fell from Irton Pike

Latterbarrow Crag with higher fells beyond from Irton Pike

the steep descent path now goes through a felled area, not massed conifers

the Malkinson memorial stone ..

.. if you want to emerge at the memorial strike into this woodland instead of following the obvious track

I decided to include Latterbarrow Crag - easy (but probably illegal) tracks up through the trees

then a scramble through the trees leads to an ambiguous top and this view eastwards

zooming in towards Wastwater and Great Gable

a much stonger zoom to Great Gable

descending towards Easthwaite

the classic view up Wastwater to Yewbarrow and Great Gable

zooming in on Lingmell

the Wastwater screes and Whin Rigg

the foot of the Wastwater screes