Height: 372 metres / 1220 feet Grid reference: SD 19499 97843
Great Worm Crag
Start point: Brown Rigg on the Birker Fell road. (SD 181 962)
Birker Fell Road (Brown Rigg) – Little Crag – Great Crag on Birker Fell (221) – Broad Crag on Birker Fell (222) – White How on Birker Fell (223) – Great Worm Crag (224) (OF) – Rough Crag – Birker Fell Road (Brown Rigg)
Weather: Overcast and windy with showers.
Today’s walk is a circuit of the knobbly and boggy Birker Fell and it follows a hybrid version of Wainwright’s Great Worm Crag chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 136. This area is a virtually pathless, boggy waste and the many grassy hummocks complete the scene. I’m certain that on a clear day the views to the Sca Fell range would be superb…
The approach to Great Crag, right, Little Crag is to the left.
Crossing Highford Beck.
Looking down to Birkerthwaite and over the Eskdale Valley from Little Crag. Illgill Head and Whin Rigg are on the horizon in the cloud.
The rocky tor of Great Crag. I climbed the green scar on the right.
Great Crag summit
Broad Crag summit looking to White Crag and Great Worm Crag
Broad Crag.
Harter Fell from the summit of White How.
Green Crag from White How.
The summit of Great Worm Crag.
Stickle Pike and The Dunnerdale Fells, left, with The Pike to the right behind the ancient cairn on Rough Crag.
