(or White Crag)
Height: 444 metres / 1457 feet Grid reference: SD 20500 97438
All the colours – Green Crag from White How
Stickle Pike and the Duddon Estuary from White How
White How on Birker Fell
Green Crag
Start point: Birker Fell road (SD 175 972)
Birker Fell Road – Little Crag – Great Crag on Birker Fell – Black Crag – Broad Crag – Green Crag – White How on Birker Fell – Far Hill – Great Worm Crag (OF) – Rough Crag – Birker Fell Road
Distance: 4.6 miles Total Ascent: 365 metres Time Taken: 2 hours Start Time: 09:55
Weather: Overcast. 17C
Well, after the long hours sorting out Love the Lakes in Keswick – some in the shop and lots at home as well – it was good to get out on the fells once more and Casper and Dougal were certainly wound up like coiled springs and when I let them out of the car there was no stopping them. This was a good little walk; it was dull and grey but at least it was fine. The rain over the weekend meant the ground was sodden once more and I did manage to get a good boot full crossing Highford Beck near the beginning of the walk!
Green Crag route map.
...and they're off! Freedom for the boys.
Heading for Little Crag in the dog vs sheep showdown.
Dougal and Casper on Little Crag sport their new Striding Edge silicon bands (see below). Want one? Details coming soon, they can be worn on your wrist or attached to your rucksack so you can identify fellow StridingEdge and Love the Lakes followers.
The Band.
Looking at Great Crag from Little Crag, we are going to climb that rake to the right.
Heading for the rake on Great Crag.
Climbing the steep rake - Angus Rake I will name it as it made me think of him and when we climbed that way...
Casper has found a lofty perch up there.
Looking back over Little Crag to Devoke Water.
The Scafells and Upper Eskdale from Great Crag.
Green Crag ahead, where we are heading for next.
Scafell and Slight Side, Low Birker Tarn in the foreground.
Green Crag from Broad Crag.
Haystacks or Crook Crag and Green Crag?
A wonderful panorama from Green Crag.
Harter Fell across Ulpha Fell from Green Crag.
Upper Eskdale to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags.
Dougal is a Friend of LovetheLakes.net.
The view from the southern summit.
Stickle Pike and the Duddon Estuary from White How.
Dow Crag and the Coniston Fells.
Green Crag and Harter Fell from the climb to Great Worm Crag.
Devoke Water from Great Worm Crag.
A 360 panoramic from Great Worm Crag.
Ancient Cairn and The Pike from Rough Crag.
Looking back to Great Worm Crag and Rough Crag.
Boundary Stone - Ulpha and Birker.
Green 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 – Black Crag – Broad Crag – Green Crag – White How on Birker Fell – Far Hill – Great Worm Crag (OF) – Rough Crag – Birker Fell Road (Brown Rigg)
Distance: 4.8 miles Total Ascent: 355 metres Time Taken: 2 hours
Weather: Overcast and grey. 20oC.
It was really overcast and grey this morning but quite warm and muggy. We had a shorter walk than yesterday across Birker Moor visiting some of the many rocky outcrops on this rough area between the Duddon Valley and Eskdale. On a better day, the views are extensive from here; today they were virtually non-existent.
Casper makes a run for Little Crag with Great Crag beyond.
I can still see you!
Great Crag from Little Crag, the grassy rake to the right is the way up.
Casper and Angus on Great Crag.
Not much of a view today, here looking over Birkerthwaite.
I could just about see Devoke Water from here with the line of the road to Eskdale curving in front of it.
Green Crag. I climbed up to the extreme right and along the ridge.
A familiar silhouette of Harter Fell from Green Crag.
Looking to the south from Green Crag. The distant fells are Caw and Stickle Pike with the next target, White How, in front.
Great Worm Crag from White How.
Looking back to Green Crag.
The sun is starting to break through on Green Crag now as I reach Far Hill on the way to Great Worm Crag. Typical!
Green Crag.
Great Worm Crag from an ancient cairn on Rough Crag.
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 – White How on Birker Fell – Great Worm Crag (OF) – Rough Crag – Birker Fell Road (Brown Rigg)
Distance: 3.6 miles Total Ascent: 324 metres Time Taken: 1 hour 45 minutes
Weather: Bright and sunny. 7ºC.
It was a bit brighter this morning for a short walk around little visited Birker Fell, the high point of the walk being the intriguingly named Great Worm Crag. Great views today but conditions were changing rapidly on the high fells with the cloud seemingly appearing and disappearing every half hour.
The approach to Little Crag to the left of Great Crag.
A steep ascent up the grassy rake to Great Crag.
Crook Crag and Green Crag from Great Crag (how many crags?!).
The Sca Fells from Great Crag.
The sun on Ill Crag.
Scafell Pike and Slight Side.
Invasion of the giant dog.
On the summit of Great Worm Crag.
All the colours - Green Crag from White Crag.
The conditions were quickly changing on the Sca Fells - I watched the clouds come and go three times during the walk.
Grey Friar.
The Coniston fells - Grey Friar on the left, Dow Crag centre and White Pike to the right.
The Duddon Estuary. Stickle Pike is silhouetted to the left, The Pike to the right.
Harter Fell.
The view from Great Worm Crag.
Devoke Water from the summit of Great Worm Crag.
Looking back to Great Worm Crag.
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.
