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Muncaster Fell (Hooker Crag)

Height: 231 metres / 758 feet Grid reference: SD 11210 98322 Category: The Outlying Fells

Heading for Hooker Crag

Heading for Hooker Crag

Hooker Crag, the summit of Muncaster Fell

Hooker Crag, the summit of Muncaster Fell

Muncaster Fell

Walked on 14/04/2005

Start point: Muncaster Castle car park (SD 097 967)

Muncaster Fell (Hooker Crag) (OF) from Muncaster Castle

Distance: 7.25 miles     Total Ascent: 388 metres     Time Taken: 2 hours 25 minutes

Weather: Rain, 7oC.

This morning’s walk was up to Muncaster Fell, a long fell with a lowly height which lies between Miterdale and Eskdale. It made a pleasant, if boggy, traverse and also marked the return to fell walking of Calston Midnight Serenade (better known as Angus!).

This walk follows Wainwright’s Muncaster Fell chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 186.

Muncaster Fell

Muncaster Fell route map.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 004

Fell Lane walking towards Muncaster Tarn.

Muncaster Fell - panorama2

Muncaster Tarn.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 013

Heading for Hooker Crag.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 014

Hooker Crag, the summit of Muncaster Fell.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 027

Good to be back!

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 034

The Sca Fells ahead in cloud with Whin Rigg and Illgill Head to the left from Ross's Camp, a Victorian curiosity - a dining table for a shooting party...

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 029

...and the inscription on the top.

Muncaster Fell - panorama6

The Lower Eskdale valley from Ross's Camp.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 040

A distant Harter Fell.

Muncaster Fell - 14th April 044

Muncaster Castle. John Ruskin described it as 'the gateway to Paradise'.

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