Walk Stile End, Outerside and Causey Pike sommets – Lake District, England

A great challenging walk to three Wainwright summits: Stile End, Outerside and Causey Pike.

Stile End, Outerside, Causey Pike summits walk information:

  • Distance: 10.5 km
  • Duration: 4h
  • Ascent: 700m
  • Level: Medium to Hard
  • Car park: several ones in Braithwaite village, we parked at the Primary School (CA12 5TD) as we couldn’t find any street parking space, £3/day, honesty box
  • What3words: Clustered.Pursuit.Shadowing (start of the walk)
  • Dog friendly: Yes, however some scrambling at the top of Causey Pike.
View from Stile End on our way to Outserside summit.

Last Sunday we decided to introduce Skye to fell walking as he is now 1 years old. Until now, we had only done flat walks with him to not damage his joints. So we decided to do this walk that comprises Stile End (447m), Outerside (568m) and Causey Pike (637m) summits. Outerside and Causey Pike summits are two Wainwright.

Down from Outerside to Causey Pike

As I like the village of Braithwaite, we decided to start the walk from there and go first to Stile End. We weren’t sure if we wanted to do the three summits and thought “let’s start with the smallest one and see how Skye will react”. As you can guess from the title of the blog post, Skye absolutely enjoyed going to the first summit. So we decided to continue the walk as the weather was as well not too bad.

Matt and Skye enjoying the view from the top of Causey Pike

After Stile End, we took the direction of Outerside summit and then Causey Pike. The little scrambling section at the top of Causey Pike didn’t perturb Skye at all. We went down Causey Pike by Sleet Hause and then took the path above Stoneycroft Gill. Once at Stoneycroft we decided to go to Stair as I wanted to follow the river Newlands Beck back to Braithwaite. I had done a nice walk following that river some years ago and I wanted to show it to Matt. However, the path following the river has been damaged during the recent storm and is now closed. So from Stair we followed the road up to Swinside and then Little Braithwaite before joining the public footpath to Braithwaite.

Read our walk from Braithwaite to Portinscale here.

After the walk we joined our friends for a late lunch at Lingholm kitchen in Portinscale.

Find Lingholm kitchen website here.

Do you know these summits?

Way down to Stoneycroft
View over the mine and Grisedale Pike on our way to Stile End
View from Swinside

Find all our dog friendly walks in the Lake District National Park in this page. To discover our adventures in the United Kingdom it is here.

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