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Broad Crag on Birker Fell

Height: 372 metres / 1220 feet Grid reference: SD 19499 97843

Great Worm Crag

Walked on 22/11/2004

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…

Birker Fell

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The approach to Great Crag, right, Little Crag is to the left.

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Crossing Highford Beck.

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Looking down to Birkerthwaite and over the Eskdale Valley from Little Crag. Illgill Head and Whin Rigg are on the horizon in the cloud.

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The rocky tor of Great Crag. I climbed the green scar on the right.

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Great Crag summit

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Broad Crag summit looking to White Crag and Great Worm Crag

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Broad Crag.

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Harter Fell from the summit of White How.

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Green Crag from White How.

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The summit of Great Worm Crag.

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Stickle Pike and The Dunnerdale Fells, left, with The Pike to the right behind the ancient cairn on Rough Crag.

Birker Fell 3D

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