Looking back to Harrison Stickle

A day on the Langdale Pikes - Photo 15

Harrison Stickle's profile is less familiar when viewed from the path to Pavey Ark.

The blobby rocks on the left are part of the Pavey Ark Member (formerly the 'Pavey Ark Breccia'). This is a very coarse tuff with many angular rock fragments, volcanic bombs and andesite lava spatter, possibly resulting from a pyroclastic flow settling into water; and thus indicative of the very violent volcanic history of much of the Lake District's distant past.