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| Name: | Castle Crag |
| Hill number: | 7976 |
| Height: | 490m / 1608ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2528 High Street |
| RHB Section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Kent |
| Class: | Synge (Sy) |
| Grid ref: | NY 44570 05159 |
| Summit feature: | outcrop |
| Drop: | 15m |
| Col: | 475m NY444051  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL7N |
| Observations: | outcrops 10m E and 15m SE are 20cm lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 79 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| cj bw | chrisj1965 | 25/09/2022 |
| Out with Dave. | Mountain Goat | 22/10/2021 |
| 3/6 Birthday walk - Up to Yoke (revisit) via Dubs Reservoir, then down to Rainsborrow Crag and drop down contouring round to Castle Crag, Piked Hawes, Rowantree Knotts and Scale Knotts. Interesting picking route over all of those. Back over Garburn Pass. Five nice Synges but a bit late for birthday tea - oops . | nickywood1 | 03/09/2021 |
| Solo. Piked Howes, Castle Crag, Rowantree Knotts, Scale Knotts, Rainsbarrow Crag (via steep N ridge), Yoke, Garburn Pass, Sour Howes, Capple Howe from Kentmere. A fine cold spring day. | Vin | 16/03/2020 |
| From Rowantree Knotts, on to Piked Howes. | Wycombe Wanderer | 13/07/2019 |
| An early start on a beautiful morning. Fun finding the craggy tips on the way up to Yolk. With Bryher. | jenx | 22/05/2019 |
| From NY 4554 0442 - room for 2 cars. Scale Knotts -> Rowantree Knotts -> Piked Howes; then onto the main ridge for Yoke etc. | jonglew | 17/01/2019 |
| Easy walk up from Piked Howes. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/10/2018 |
| Dropped. Down from the top of Garburn pass to bag the. 4 Synge's | robert | 23/05/2018 |
| On ridge walk from Kentmere | Cicatrice | 22/05/2018 |
| With Bryher, parked up from the church, once past The Nook and approaching Badger Rock headed up the burn falling from Piked Howes, found old cart track further up and followed to close to top. Onto Castle Crag easily, then wet ground and walls to Rowantree Knotts, then after boggy ground Scale Knotts. Dropped with some thought through bracken and juniper to minor road at Scales, then road back to car. | nordicstar | 20/10/2017 |
| R Rob | Richard Tait | 25/10/2016 |
| From Dubbs road on a backpack camped near top. | mick | 18/07/2016 |
| En route from Yoke down to Kentmere village as alternative to Buck Crag at the end of a Kentmere Horseshoe. | Eddie | 25/04/2016 |
| On circuit of four Synges. Mist and rain. | Aye Jimmy | 23/10/2015 |
| Castle Crag - Piked Howes - Rowantree Knotts - Scale Knotts | ronaldo333 | 31/08/2015 |
| Parking (about 10 cars) alongside the village hall .... but these places fill up quickly. For a legal alternative, drive beyond the village hall to a sharp left hand bend. Straight ahead, through a gate, is a public road (shown on a notice as such) to Hartrigg. A large notice tells you that there is no parking beyond this gate. This is not true. There are plenty of parking places round the first cattle grid, and numerous others alongside the road. No problems with turning either. | moorsman | 17/06/2015 |
| Synge bagging day from Kentmere | Crib Goch | 15/02/2015 |
| Kentmere Church -> Scale Knotts -> Rowantree Knotts -> Castle Crag -> Piked Howes -> Kentmere Church | briandiggle | 28/12/2014 |
| From Kentmere. Capple Howe, Sour Howes, Sallows, Castle Crag, Piked Howes, Rowantree Knotts and Scale Knotts. | AlunRees31 | 24/10/2014 |
| From Kentmere. Capple Howe, Sour Howes, Sallows, Castle Crag, Piked Howes, Rowantree Knotts and Scale Knotts. | Alunrees33 | 24/10/2014 |
| The highest of a mass of tops in this area | peebs | 28/06/2014 |
| A round of 11 summits, 8 new ones. Parked on the road by entrance to caravan park. | thenomad | 08/04/2014 |
| From Kentmere church. Careful route planning needed due to the large number of walls without gates in the area. | JohnStoneham | 04/02/2014 |
| Synges seem so arbitrary. Why this lump and not others nearby? After Piked Howes. | Martin R | 30/12/2013 |
| With Jo, walk from Troutbeck: up Garburn Road to Garburn Pass, then alongside fence onto Buck Crag, Castle Crag, Piked Howes, Rowantree Knotts, returning along the Garburn Road. Weather; overcast, mizzle at first, dryer later, good visibility. | amblerbob | 20/09/2013 |
| With Lesley-a sort of Kentmere Horseshoe with diversions to take in Synge tops | Chris Pearson | 28/05/2006 |
| from Yoke down over tussock over rough crags to top. At car 3730'; 12 1/2 m; 7 hours. | arranc | 19/04/1976 |
| Michael Hood | 12/05/2023 | |
| IainT | 21/10/2022 | |
| hughbagger | 01/08/2022 | |
| dickiewren | 06/07/2022 | |
| PeteN | 25/01/2022 | |
| Scott Morley 86 | 25/04/2021 | |
| conanharrod | 30/10/2020 | |
| Jill Robertson | 23/10/2020 | |
| amblemark | 23/10/2020 | |
| CraigDring | 29/09/2020 | |
| holtsd | 17/09/2020 | |
| pwithnall | 31/08/2020 | |
| Andy West | 28/07/2020 | |
| Marra1 | 24/06/2020 | |
| Dawn Oldham | 01/03/2020 | |
| kev65 | 03/06/2019 | |
| DARRENG | 10/12/2018 | |
| DC11main | 15/09/2018 | |
| PeteF | 02/09/2018 | |
| AdyGray | 13/07/2018 | |
| IWC | 14/04/2018 | |
| PaulineC | 14/04/2018 |