They have contributed 25 public walk reports including this summit. Ill Crag is on Peak Bagging Map & Hill Tick List:Walk c197 Lingmell and Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head, Wast Water,Walk c271 The Scafell Massif from Wasdale Head, Wast Water,England's highest & 2nd highest mountains,Walk c453 The Scafell Mountains from Wasdale Head, Wast Water,Testing route up England's highest mountains,Walk c416 Scafell Pike from The Old Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale,The 'easiest' way up England's highest from Great Langdale,Walk c194 Scafell Pike from The Old Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale,Walk c166 The Scafell Masiff from Wha House Farm, Eskdale,Walk c110 The Eskdale Skyline from Wha House Farm, Eskdale,Stenuous high level route across England's highest mountains,Marcelle Allman walked up on August 2nd, 2020,Rich Roberts climbed on August 2nd, 2020,Caroline Winter bagged on August 11th, 2018,Tony Rogerson conquered on April 4th, 2010,Christine Shepherd scaled during April, 2003,Leon Harvey walked up on April 18th, 2015,Jason Johnston climbed on August 16th, 2014,Darren Mortimer bagged on June 21st, 2014,More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Ill Crag,Looking south from the summit of Dale Head (Newlands) with (left to right) Great End, Broad Crag, Ill Crag and Scafell Pike on the horizon and Great Gable (far right - mid distance),The Scafell Massif - Slight Side, Sca Fell, Symonds Knott, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag and Great End from Crinkle Crags (Long Top),Scafell Pike (left) and Broad Crag (right) from Ill Crag,Scafell Pike (far left), Ill Crag and the shoulder of Great End (far right) from Esk Hause,Ill Crag (left) with Broad Crag below Scafell Pike from Great End summit,Great Langdale and Lingmoor Fell in the snow from Whitegill Crag,The Scafell Massif - Sca Fell, Symonds Knott, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag & Great End - with Bow Fell (Bowfell) in the right foreground from the summit of Bow Fell (Bowfell) (North Top),Deer Bields, Ferngill Crag and Broadstone Head from Calf Crag,From left to right: Slight Side and Sca Fell, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag and Great End, Esk Hause, Esk Pike, Bow Fell (Bowfell), Crinkle Crags (Long Top), Cold Pike, Little Stand and finally the shoulder of Grey Friar from the summit of Hard Knott.If you would like to add your walk photographs and pictures featuring views from, on or of Ill Crag to this page, please send them as email attachments (configured for any computer) along with your name to:and we shall do our best to publish them.To contribute to go4awalk.com or to contact us about anything at all - see.go4awalk.com and go4awalk.co.uk are registered trademarks of TMDH Limited.Sorry, but your browser does not appear to be accepting our cookies.Cookies must be enabled for you to Log On successfully.To close this message click anywhere outside this window,The Southern Fells area of The Lake District,*Walk & bag all 30 Wainwrights in The Southern Fells area of The Lake District in just 11 easy to follow walks,See the location of Ill Crag and all 8 walks that climb it on an interactive Google Map,Get directions to the start of this easy-to-follow walk,See more details about this easy-to-follow walk,see all 24 walk photographs & pictures of views from, on or of Ill Crag,Can't find something? Undoubtedly this is the finest approach to any mountain route in the Lakes. It finishes right at the very top of Ill Crag, at 3067ft/935m – which is one of the subsidiary tops of Scafell Pike, highest summit in England at 3204ft/978m.
Ill Crag is a summit in the Lake District – Southern Fells region or range in England. Sca Fell Pike heaving with people taking selfies. Name: Ill Crag Hill number: 2362 Height: 930.9m / 3054ft Parent (Ma): 2359 Scafell Pike RHB Section: 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells Nuttall/Wainwright area: Lake District - Southern Fells County/UA: Cumbria (CoU) The drop in the west is just under 190ft, that in the east around 250ft. Ill Crag is 935 metres high. It took me around 3 hours from campsite to Ill Crag summit. This allowed for many, many rests and frequent checks of my 'Scrambles in the Lake District' text. Ill Crag is one of the peaks in the Scafell range, the third tallest after Scafell Pike and Scafell. * Climbs listed in red are waiting to be checked by a crag moderator, and may not be accurate.
Walking | Cam Crag Ridge & Ill Crag. Day 1 It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. From the summit of Scafell Pike, the route returns via the summits of Broad Crag, Ill Crag, including a dog leg section to bag Great End and then down to the col at Esk House. Ill Crag may be climbed en route to Scafell Pike, via a path from Esk Hause, but it is commonly passed by without going to the actual summit, which is rocky making progress slow. From Lingmell we then intended to join the Hollow Stones path coming up from Wasdale and visit Scafell Pike before returning to Seathwaite via Broad Crag, Ill Crag and Esk Hause - that was the plan anyway. The top can be identified by the rock 2m NE of cairn. Ill Crag's summit is a few hundred metres to the south of the path from Esk Hause to Scafell Pike. Ill Crag 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.
Access routes are long from either the North (Borrowdale) or South (Eskdale). August 2015 | Sun-kissed rock and stunning scrambling high above Langstrath. Scrambling Grades: Ill Crag - Grade 3 or Grade 1 and 2 options Route: From Seathwaite via Grains Gill, Great End, Esk Hause, descending into upper Eskdale passing through the narrow gorge of the Knotts of the Tongue, Little Narrowcove and on to the base of Ill Crag; a broken, rocky hillside providing continuous open scrambling to the top - a vertical interval of almost 500m / 1640ft. The route continues by descending Grain’s Gill Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We had “only” climbed one mountain, albeit a mighty good one – Scafell Pike, which we …