cairned

A cairned track climbed away from the river, up a ravine.

This cairned top is recognised as a summit by some guidbooks.

The summit of the mountain is a broad, flat north-south ridge with two cairned points 200 metres apart.

The summit of the fell is stony with two cairned rock outcrops, the south easterly is the higher while the north westerly offers the better view.

The trail is marked and even signed as it passes through some picturesque maple forests into state land, reaching the snowmobile trail at another cairned junction.

South eastwards the ridge continues to the cairned top of Goat Scar, which provides a good viewpoint for the craggy throat of Longsleddale.

The first cairned top, High Pike Hill, is then quickly attained and soon the rim of cliffs trends due south, giving direction to the walk and providing aerial views of Mallerstang below.

The ridge from Shipman Knotts to Kentmere Pike climbs due north as far as the cairned top of Goat Scar (2,053 ft), before turning north west to complete its journey.

It may be climbed from the Refuge Nice in around two-and-a-half to three hours, initially northward along a narrow path towards the Lacs de Mont Clapier, then eastward along a cairned route (no path visible) across rough, bouldered ground.

The fell is invariably climbed from Seathwaite, taking the bridleway from Stockley Bridge which goes to Styhead Tarn for a kilometre, passing the waterfall of Taylorgill Force, before striking south westerly over rocky terrain to reach the cairned northern summit.

It is possible to circumvent almost all the scrambling on the route via Great Door by taking a path to the left of the major gully, and a cairned track without any scrambling runs up the west side from below Stirrup Crag to the minor col between the two tops of Yewbarrow.