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N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 23 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Took this Crag in on route back from the nightmare of Black Knowe. | smocks and denims | 07/03/2024 |
On my bike, after the horror of Black Knowe. Easy enough crag but I made the best scrambly ascent which I could find. Then a blissful downhill ride to Churnsike Lodge | Colin Crawford | 09/01/2024 |
10:45am, -4 degrees (max 0 later), mostly sunny. Pretended I was an ice road trucker on the drive to Chirnsike Lodge. Left the car a couple of kms from the lodge as I wasn't sure I'd get back up a short, steep section on a bend. Summit view improved by sun and snow. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/01/2023 |
Cycled in from Churnsike lodge. | Andrew Simmons | 14/05/2022 |
Room for a car at Churnsike Lodge to SSE. Easy forest roads to quarry SSE of top. Then a long, energy sapping trudge across a km+ of thick heather and grass, first to corner of forest, then followed forest edge then > Black Knowe. On the plus side, it hasn't been ploughed for forestry and dry underfoot despite a wet month. Peat hags S of TP so stick to forest edge to avoid them. Returned to forest roads and continued E to Chirdon Hope, then S > Muckle Samuel's Crags. Continued along forest roads to Churnsike Lodge. | JohnR | 30/05/2021 |
Forest roads via Churnsike Lodge and Whitehill from lay-by [661,766] before River Irthing bridge. | RobB | 02/01/2021 |
From Whitehill. Gate was open but walked from there anyway. After returning to the car drove past it on the way to Kielder Water on forest roads, save doing the long way round, so wasted my time in doing the walk.... doh! Nice little crag though, no scramble required. | jonglew | 02/11/2019 |
Feint path round N then W side crags - no climbing involved | carole engel | 28/07/2019 |
As moorsman parking at the end of the tarmac road at Churnsike. The RoW on the OS map at Little Samuel's Crags is very difficult to spot - it is not waymarked, and the path, such as it is, actually heads more or less directly for the summit, leaving the forest road at 6868,7982. I had the company of 140 motorcyclists competing for The Kielder 500 Navigation Rally, a two day event covering 280 miles of forest roads. A bit noisy but a friendly bunch - most gave me a wave as they passed - a few stopped to chat. As others have mentioned the craggy top of Muckle Samuel's Crags seems higher than the 337m spot height on Coom Rigg itself. | Crib Goch | 30/03/2019 |
Easy parking by the bridge at the end of the public road to Churnsike (alt 272m). Fast, easy walk along forestry roads. Summit obvious on left. | moorsman | 12/05/2018 |
With Jo, from parking area by bridge near Churnsike Lodge. Track to Little Samuel's Crags, with detour to Muckle Samuel's Crags (higher than CR according to my GPS), then path direct to summit. Weather; cloudy, some light rain, mild, good visibility. | amblerbob | 18/09/2017 |
Used a trail blazed by off-road bikers (bless 'em) to return to the forest road. Much easier than tussock-city and only ten minutes walk | maknipe | 25/08/2017 |
With RHW group | Adrian | 03/04/2016 |
From SW, end of yellow road although could apparently have driven 2km on good unpaved road to park at Whitehill just before barrier. Tussocky summit via beeline across easy open ground. Muckle Samuel's Crag visited en route, scrambly summit looks as high with 335 spot poss relating to lower point 50m to NW. My final English 300m summit - thanks to Steve Dave Rick Doug Smudge and Adrian for company. | RHW | 03/04/2016 |
Parked before bridge before Churnsike Lodge before using track to reach and bag Muckle Samuel' s Crag before finding a sort of track to bag the summit currently on HB for RHW' s final English 3 with Adrian, Dave, Rick, Steve, Smudge and Rob. | Dugswell2 | 03/04/2016 |
Rob W's final English 300m top, walk in from parking before Churnsike Lodge, possible to drive past this to gate at Whitehill. | nordicstar | 03/04/2016 |
Muckle Samuel's Crag may be higher: mapped 335m spot is not at the HP & I obtained higher GPS readings here than at Coom Rigg. For the named summit itself, a rough trail departs from the forest road where ftpth is indicated, but rather than heading NNE it makes more of a beeline towards the HP. Both tops provide good viewpoints for the surrounding terrain. | Smudge | 03/04/2016 |
Continued driving along forest roads from Greenside, a bit nervy because padlocks hanging from gates and might get locked in. Never saw anyone. Visited Muckle Dodd first, looked quite prominent with felling. Correct track ended at clearing onto very tussocky summit area. Some of the largest mossy tussocks had tree stumps underneath. | Aye Jimmy | 28/02/2016 |
Hoped to drive in from NE but all securely locked up in advance of a car rally special stage. | RHW | 30/11/2014 |
mae | 15/08/2019 | |
Lucky | 25/08/2017 | |
Dave Geere | 03/04/2016 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
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