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Name: | Stonesty Pike |
Hill number: | 3729 |
Height: | 765m / 2510ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2359 Scafell Pike |
RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Southern Fells |
County/UA: | Cumberland |
Catchment: | Duddon, Catchment Boundaries, Esk (Ravenglass) |
Watershed: | Morecambe Bay |
Class: | Birkett (B) |
Grid ref: | NY 24942 04123 |
Summit feature: | cairn |
Drop: | 2m |
Col: | 763m NY249041 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 90 (1:25k) OL6N |
Observations: | Birkett's cairn; cairn marking true summit is 200m ESE at NY 25119 04047 |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 272 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Michael Hood | 24/11/2023 | |
Mountain Leader Summer Award Assessment Day 4/5. Mountain day, leadership, nav, emergency and other general skills. From Cold Pike camp traversed Crinkle crags and descended The Band. With forecast 50mph winds, descended to the valley to camp at the National Trust Campsite. Cloudy, daylight 10mph N'ly, visibility good, high ground water. | higlett | 21/11/2023 |
Smog | 22/10/2023 | |
Scout | 22/10/2023 | |
ALHEJ Wilkins | 08/10/2023 | |
From New Dungeon Ghyll. 
17.5 km, 1000 m asc. 
By Oxendale and Hell Gill to Three Tarns. 
Up and over Shelter Crags and the five Crinkles. 
S to Stonesty Pike and Little Stand, E to Cold Pike and N to Great Knott. 
Down by the Red Tarn path, Brown Howe and Oxendale. 
Warm, dry. | SalmonJoe | 30/08/2023 |
Hootsjimmie | 13/07/2023 | |
jeffrey ault | 27/11/2022 | |
Cockley Beck -> Little Stand -> Stonesty Pike -> First Crinkle -> Crinke Crags -> Third Crinkle -> Fourth Crinkle -> Fifth Crinkle -> Shelter Crags -> Rest Gill -> Hard Knott -> Hard Knott Pass road -> Cockley Beck | briandiggle | 04/11/2022 |
nigelcmason2 | 18/10/2022 | |
Starting at ODG, up The Band then a traverse of Crinkle Crags followed by a scooping up of these loose hills: Stonesty Pike, Little Stand, Great Knott, Cold Pike Far West Top, Cold Pike West Top and Brown How. Returned to ODG via Oxendale. | BobHancock | 19/06/2022 |
From Old Dungeon Ghyll: Pike of Blisco, Cold Pike (all 3 tops) Little Stand, Stonesty Pike, Crinkle Crags, Bow Fell. Rain and fog at the start of the day, but a lovely late afternoon. Hard walk with hiking Manchester. | Lazylizzie | 21/05/2022 |
iainwalton | 21/12/2021 | |
Fun 25km slog across the Langdale Skyline, got pretty wet towards the end. | atreides7887 | 11/11/2021 |
Jill Robertson | 12/10/2021 | |
Parked at 3 Shires Stone. Circular across Crinkle Crags to Bow Fell and return. Sunny day with some cloud. Great visibility. Hard going but straightforward (even over the Bad Step) | Argentum66 | 12/09/2021 |
On the way to Little Stand watching Sue in the Duddon Fell race. | Geoff Briggs | 05/06/2021 |
Scafell, Upper Eskdale. Not in JWS List. Climbed incidentally at some unrecorded date later than the first ascent of Esk and / or Scafell Pikes | Peterdunscar | 17/05/2021 |
10.7 miles 3869ft walk. Start at Great Langdale NT campsite to Pike of Blisco, Great Knott, Cold Pike, Little Stand Crinkle Crags and Shelter Crags, return down Earing Crag to Great Langdale. | stephenbuda | 17/05/2021 |
Paul Wilkinson | 29/04/2021 | |
Down from Pike O'Blisco, upto the start of the Crinkles and across, visiting both tops as well as other possible lumps. Onto Little Stand. | Andrew Pearson | 09/04/2021 |
With Chris in superb weather. First time back in the Lakes after lockdown relaxation. The classic Crinkle Crags and Bowfell ridge walk, visiting a total of 21 summits from Dungeon Ghyll. Visited: Brown Howe, Great Knott, Cold Pike, Cold Pike West Top, Cold Pike Far West Top, Little Stand, Stonesty Pike, Crinkle Crags South Top, Crinkle Crags - Long Top, Crinkle Crags – 3rd Crinkle, Crinkle Crags – 4th Crinkle, Crinkle Crags – Gunson Knott, Shelter Crags, Crinkle Crags North Top, Bowfell, Bowfell North Top, Esk Pike, Tongue Head, Rossett Pike, Buck Pike, Black Crags. 27.7km with 1630m ascent in 11h30m. | silveracorn_alan | 03/04/2021 |
dickiewren | 28/02/2021 | |
Another one of Birketts pointless summits when there is as a higher summit to the south east | conanharrod | 19/11/2020 |
Crinkle Crags Round from Sticklebarn CP | screeleep | 10/10/2020 |
nigelcmason | 29/09/2020 | |
Swindon Bagger | 16/09/2020 | |
Si's 2nd round | 21/07/2020 | |
Em's 2nd round | 21/07/2020 | |
TheWanderer27 | 18/07/2020 | |
amblemark | 09/06/2020 | |
Kendall | 05/06/2020 | |
ALHEJ Wilkins | 30/05/2020 | |
Coxswain | 16/03/2020 | |
Birkett 3 Revisit with Pete via South East Top | Dave Geere | 19/01/2020 |
pedro1 | 19/01/2020 | |
A W Bryan | 03/12/2019 | |
Visited Birkett cairn first then wandered over to the smaller, supposedly higher, cairn to the WNW. With Alfie. I'm surprised this hill isn't a Synge. | Dangerous Dave | 01/12/2019 |
Isbjorn | 23/09/2019 | |
Walked on a round with my wife as we started and finished at the ODG. We diverted especially for this hill. | morgs4mountains | 23/09/2019 |
amcvey | 15/09/2019 | |
hlpahamp | 08/09/2019 | |
From 3 Shires,Cold Pike,Great Knott,only managed first and second crinkle had to call it a day due to wind and clag.Returned low level to pick up Stoesty Pike and Little Stand.A bit confusing in the clag. | jocks1 | 29/08/2019 |
phenderson42 | 13/07/2019 | |
DAY 2 OF BIRKETT BAGGING BONANZA. FROM LANGDALE CAMPSITE UP TO RED TARN AND OUT TO STONESTY PIKE BEFORE ADDING THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH CRINKLES TO THE LIST. REPEATED FIRST AND SECOND CRINKLES AND SHELTER CRAGS FOR GOOD MEASURE AND DID WHITE STONES ON WAY DOWN THE BAND. A FINE, CLEAR DAY. | BURGESS | 08/07/2019 |
With Ian. Visited actual and subjective tops. | PeteF | 03/07/2019 |
timus | 29/06/2019 | |
davefh | 15/05/2019 | |
dadofmorph | 15/05/2019 | |
Circuit from Langdale to pick off hills previously missed: White Stones -> Shelter Crags N Top -> Crinkle Crag 4 & 3 -> Stonesty Pike -> Great Knott -> Brown Howe. Started raining as we left the car park, didn't stop until returning to the car park - a dreich day. With nephy Andrew P. | jonglew | 26/04/2019 |