Ill Crag Climbing Notes. Author, explorer, interviewer, time traveller…. © Bob.Please help UKClimbing continue to provide varied and free content by becoming an official UKC Supporter. At this point we move back right and climb the rock rib and a steep step to reach scree and easy ground.Above lies the third step and we follow diagonally left towards a deep vegetative gully with a rock nose below and to the right. Ill Crag is one of very few fells in the lake District not to be given a separate chapter in Alfred Wainwright's celebrated guide books, although Wainwright does give it a page in the Scafell Pike chapter. The view included Esk Pike, Bow Fell, Crinkle Crags and in the distance Grey Friar. Continuing up slabs right of the crest we then reach a grassy break below a steep central wall that is clearly visible from below.Above is an impressive sweep of slabs made for climbing.A vegetative groove on the left provides us with the only feasible route for scrambling where a rope is advisable.We continue gaining the groove from the slabs on the right and follow this until a flake at the top gives access to the rock rib on the left. We could pick out peaks we had climbed previously, others we knew from having passed them many times, and another few we hoped to climb in the next few hours!From Lingmell Crag there are uninterrupted views back to Yewbarrow in the west, just across Wastwater. Please submit any useful information about climbing Ill Crag that may be useful to other climbers. All the walking routes up Ill Crag on Mud and Routes can be found below. Scafell, Wasdale & Eskdale. The top can be identified by the rock 2m NE of cairn. It’s good and high, with the summit standing at 807 metres (2647 ft), and from the Wasdale Head campsite it presents a nice, gradually ascending, velvety-surfaced green hillside. Wainwright failed to list it as such in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. Eskdale A mountain with a dark side, and no mistake….For Jen and me this day’s hike would prove to be a lynchpin: a central point we’d never visited before, surrounded by other visible peaks we knew. Off we went, just a little down and then a little up, and within a few minutes we were standing on Ill Crag, at 935 metres (3067 ft). The initial slab leads to a ledge and a steeper slab which we climb by a groove on the left.Above, easy slabs lead to a grassy bay, which we cross to reach a bilberry ramp leading to a rock step. Apparently they had taken so many photos their phones had all but run out of juice! Perhaps not one for the faint-hearted, as this almost-path looked more like a steep, rocky scramble.We would unfortunately need to lose some height (100m, at a guess), moving almost right down to the “corridor route”, but at least we would steer clear of the really busy section. Ill Crag is not normally included in the list of Lake District mountains over 3,000ft, although the Scottish Mountaineering Club does include it in the list of 'Furth Munros', or mountains in Britain but outside Scotland that would otherwise count as Munros. A ridge of higher rocks run east-west across the plateau, with dramatic views down into Esk Dale.In the south Ill Crag is bordered by two clear streams - Little Narrowcove beck forms the boundary with Scafell Pike while Calfcove Gill splits the fell from Great End. You can show your support in one of two ways; both come with rewards, and one includes discounted products from Rockfax.These preferences will be saved and used for any crag page you visit, and can be changed at any point by clicking the,Adding too many columns to a small device may require horizontal scrolling,Please click on the climb from the dropdown list.© UKClimbing Limited.
I have to say, seeing this lovely pair so happy gave me an extra glow to round off an already brilliant day .Audacious 500ml Not a hip-flask but is it a Hip Flask?Interviewing soap star Jacqueline Leonard,Simon interviewed on Chat City – Preston FM,Interviewing Chris Martin and Marianne Azizi.
The Scafell Pike path was packed with visitors trudging antlike in lines, scaling what we had climbed in the clag a day earlier. Today, with perfect visibility from the top of Lingmell, we could see familiar summits from walks past, and see their locations in relation to one another in a way that now made sense. Ill Crag overlooks Eskdale and has splendid views across to Bowfell and Crinkle Crags. When we eventually reached what we’d thought was the top – I’d gone so far as to sit down at a cairn for a victory pipe – we realised that there was still plenty of grassy uphill still ahead, and a higher craggy bit beyond that! If you've walked up this hill already why not log on or register and record your walk? Scafell, Wasdale & Eskdale. Ill Crag. for a view of the near-vertical drop down almost to the valley floor. I gave them a few pointers, and as we set off the next morning they were still mulling over their options…,As for Jen and I, we were hoping for an epic multi-peak hike, but also hoped somehow to avoid the crowds that are almost guaranteed around England’s highest mountain on a sun-drenched weekend in July. Ill Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. See Also . We climb this to gain a rock rib on the left which takes us below a block-capped rock wall. Due to the ongoing spread of Covid-19, please abstain from climbing outside. I was delighted to hear that they’d climbed to the summit of the iconic Great Gable (899m / 2949 ft), and spent a good while up there enjoying the amazing views and sunshine. a sandwich shy of a picnic!I’m afraid we’d been a little disappointed on Day 1 of our latest hiking trip in the Lakes, having had to rein in our multi-peak agenda due to bad weather. Ill Crag is the 4th highest peak in England. According to the map there was a route, potentially a path-esque type of affair, leading up the middle of the wide gully between Broad Crag and Scafell Pike.