Height: 231 metres / 758 feet Grid reference: SD 11210 98322 Category: The Outlying Fells
Heading for Hooker Crag
Hooker Crag, the summit of Muncaster Fell
Muncaster Fell (Hooker Crag)
Muncaster Fell
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 route map.
Fell Lane walking towards Muncaster Tarn.
Muncaster Tarn.
Heading for Hooker Crag.
Hooker Crag, the summit of Muncaster Fell.
Good to be back!
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...
...and the inscription on the top.
The Lower Eskdale valley from Ross's Camp.
A distant Harter Fell.
Muncaster Castle. John Ruskin described it as 'the gateway to Paradise'.