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| Name: | Cat Crag |
| Hill number: | 16217 |
| Height: | 186m / 610ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2528 High Street |
| RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Kent |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SD 42412 93931 |
| Summit feature: | large outcrop 4m S of wall |
| Drop: | 36m |
| Col: | 150m SD422945  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 97 (1:25k) OL7N |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 38 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| A lovely lunch in the Brown Horse Inn at Winster worked off with a walk up to Cat Crag and Scott Howe. Initially up the minor road towards Knipe Tarn, heading off-road to Cat Crag once a field gate NW of the summit is reached. Lots of bracken over to Bow Mabble Breast, but much easier once on the ROW and track towards Scott Howe. Returned via the A5074. | summitter | 08/10/2023 |
| Small but opportune layby 300m SE of the pub in Winster. Walk back towards the pub and take a gate immediately before the juction leading onto the open access. Follow the good track until it finishes then ..... sheer hell through bracken and brambles to the summit. Took a pathless 45 minutes each way to the top . An experience I will never repeat. | moorsman | 22/09/2022 |
| Parked in the layby just south east of Winster. Then used paths/tracks on access land all the way to the summit. Then more or less a direct route to Scott Howe and straight back down to the road. | Alan Caine | 03/06/2022 |
| Parked on the road by a gate beyond Knipe Tarn. Over the gate and up to Cat Crag, then headed north across the unfrequented territory visiting Undermillbeck Common and finally Capple Brow. Lots of deer about.(S) | silveracorn_alan | 17/02/2022 |
| Parked near Knipe Tarn, along road to gate, pasture to wall and to HP. With C. | PeterD | 23/12/2021 |
| From north using farm land from gate and over wall to summit. Avoided access land due to deer fence. | conanharrod | 31/01/2021 |
| Approached through access land from A5074 near the Brown Horse in Winster (gate at SD 4190 9349). No problems. Deer fencing has been added to the wall north of the summit; the approach from the north therefore not recommended. | dickiewren | 29/11/2020 |
| from the gate, field then over the wall to the top. | robertphillips | 08/10/2020 |
| From Brown Horse in Winster Valley, Cat Crag then down to rhs of house with its own Lake!!, to minor road, along the BOAT, turn up into field when it levels via barbed wire duck under, then Undermill Beck Common, Easy down and across to Capple Barrow from this side, no need to get into conflict with the Golf course, then back via Gilpin Farm to pick up footpaths and bridleways up to Hart Howe, direct across with open gates onto Lords Lot. Then directly down into the Gilpin Valley, to pick up the footpath from Foxhole Bank (house) to reach Scott Howe, then back over directly west to pick up bridleway almost back to the pub. A nice route with do'able off piste bits! | nickywood1 | 23/03/2019 |
| From SD 4231 9420, field gate then easy ground. Stone wall needed to be negotiated for the last 5m to gain the summit outcrop. | jonglew | 25/10/2018 |
| Very easy stroll from spot height 158. My last fell in the rough bounds of Crook. | Wycombe Wanderer | 07/10/2018 |
| Winster church - Rulbuts Hill - Green Lane - Undermillbeck Common - Knipe Tarn - CAT CRAG. Lovely walk on a beautiful sunny day. Snow everywhere. First Lakes walk of the year. | citygent | 07/02/2018 |
| Crossed wall into access land 250m N of PH, from minor road. Followed wall easily over dead bracken to summit. Descent following E side of wall N to Knipe Tarn and minor road. | Moorponder | 04/04/2017 |
| Cat Crag from GR: SD 42306 94192 | ronaldo333 | 22/03/2017 |
| Ascended from the north. | JohnW | 11/02/2017 |
| Used David G's direction and grid reference. Nice rocky outcrop nearby. | nordicstar | 28/09/2016 |
| As Aye Jimmy. Parked by gate at SD 42306 94192. | David Gradwell | 23/04/2016 |
| 3 of 6 Tumps on a circular 3hr run from Bowness before 10.00 am. After Scott Howe- 1 wall to cross in then 1 wall out N after summit climbed at step change (as AJ) and easy fast run down grass N to lane. | Chris Pearson | 08/01/2016 |
| I ascended from Winster via the Access Land but it was rough going. There is parking via an access gate at SD 4230 9418 with only the barbed wall to conquer to attain the summit. | jimbloomer | 25/09/2015 |
| From Pub. Head high bracken once track runs out. Jimmy's route would be better. | PeteF | 26/07/2015 |
| From SSW, with Scott Howe | RHW | 18/04/2015 |
| From NW, park by gate. Up field to wall at top, six deer seen. Rocky outcrop on other side of wall; easiest to cross at step-change in height of wall just to N. | Aye Jimmy | 04/03/2015 |
| Great viewpoint | briandiggle | 25/08/2014 |
| Easy bag from the Lake House at Knipe Tarn, I was working for the owners at the time. | George Gradwell | 08/04/2011 |
| Martin R | 03/01/2024 | |
| trimarc2 | 09/11/2021 | |
| Rambling Ray | 08/11/2019 | |
| RowanP | 25/03/2019 | |
| m0untain_n0mad | 18/01/2019 | |
| DC11main | 24/11/2018 | |
| mae | 16/01/2017 | |
| GaryJones | 28/11/2016 | |
| George Gradwell | 23/04/2016 | |
| Lucky | 08/12/2015 | |
| maknipe | 08/12/2015 | |
| peebs | 02/06/2015 | |
| Dave Geere | 17/08/2014 | |
| Edwin Gradwell | 27/03/2013 |