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Name: | High Crag |
Hill number: | 16396 |
Height: | 356.8m / 1171ft |
Parent (Ma): | 3682 Cracoe Fell |
RHB Section: | 35B: The Central Pennines |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Yorkshire Dales - Southern Fells |
County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
Catchment: | Wharfe |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | SE 03093 55258 |
Summit feature: | ground 5m S of large cairn |
Drop: | 30m |
Col: | 326.8m SE 0236 5539 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 104 (1:25k) OL2S |
Observations: | ground around cairn is of similar height |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 104 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the car park to the NE, down the road then up a slanting path through the quarry, faint path leads to summit and trig | matty1971b | 15/10/2023 |
Part of 18k round from Bolton Abbey to Thorpe 
(Halton Height Trig too) | HardenC | 07/09/2023 |
Cp at top of road, down road to slanting path through quarry, back down much better path along top straight to cp. | Flatfield | 15/08/2022 |
From the car park to the NE, down the road then up a slanting path through the quarry. | Wheelsy | 06/08/2022 |
Parked at 300m contour on wide verge. Fairly good path to trig point: Lovely day. Back to Manchester at 13:30 | GordonAdshead | 09/04/2022 |
1 of 4 on 12.4 mile hike starting at the small car park in the bend on barden road. Close to the start point on this one diverted from track across heather moorland to trig summit. First one of 2022 | The-Z-Man | 01/01/2022 |
Circular walk from CP at Halton Mooor, taking in High Crag, Brown Bank and Cracoe Fell | garyhoney | 31/12/2021 |
Visited High Crag, Brown Bank and Cracoe Fell on Day 9 of our Yorkshire Dales Circular Walk, today from Halton Moor to Hetton, via these summits across Barden Moor. With Annette, Christine, Eric, Geoff and Steve. 17km with 450m ascent in 5h 30m. | silveracorn_alan | 02/12/2021 |
From Halton Moor, through heather. On to Cracoe Fell. | peter4lc | 10/08/2021 |
From Embsay on circular walk, reservoir, Embsay Crag, Brown Bank, Rylstone Cross, Cracoe Fell, Thorpe Fell Top, across Barden Moor to High Crag and back to Embsay via Eastby. | PeterD | 26/06/2021 |
Round from Elbsay reservoir | cjo | 19/06/2021 |
Last of 3 trig walk on a lovely sunny day. | Dugswell2 | 19/06/2021 |
A circular walk around Barden Moor visiting High Crag, Embsay Crag, Crag Top, Cracoe Fell and Thorpe Fell with Chris. Windy with frequent hail showers. Very wet with a slippery peat track underfoot. 21.5km with 960m ascent taking 6h50m. | silveracorn_alan | 12/03/2021 |
With Mum,Zoe,Theo,Fox,Layla and Peggy. | lilyrosieives | 09/06/2020 |
First walk in YDNP after lockdown lifted! Parked at car park at Halton Heights. Followed southern edge of moor over High Crag to Embsay Crag, then track north to Brown Bank. Continued along gravel estate road (bridleway) to SD 984 570, then turning north along track past the cross to the obelisk, from Cracoe Fell continued on by wall to next estate road and broke off to visit crumbling trig at Thorpe Fell Top. returned to car using more estate roads past the two reservoirs and up to Halton Heights. Good to be out in the Dales again! 22km with 570m ascent in 5h30m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 14/05/2020 |
Barden Moor round with Smudge 1 of 3 | SteveG | 24/11/2019 |
Halton Moor C/P circular with SG. | Smudge | 24/11/2019 |
Solo from SE 03754 55358. High Crag (Halton Height trig pt), Brown Bank & Crook Rise Top trig pt. | ADT | 19/10/2019 |
Parked down the bottom near the cattle grid and came up through the crags to bag the trig point and Tump and geocache. | Father Ted | 14/04/2019 |
Approach from lay-by parking to S. Fine little hill. | ger | 15/02/2019 |
on wild afternoon, by trigpoint | cjo | 12/01/2019 |
6th top of 8 on a route from Grassington to Skipton climbing Elbolton and Kail hill then Thorpe Fell top, Cracoe Fell and Brown Bank plus the 433m spot height (and potential alt summit) then over to a track veering off to climb to the top. Descent to the road, heading for Haw Park... | Dazingdale | 29/12/2018 |
Quick ascent via a surprise discovery of formation that looks like it belongs in the Pacific. | Donks42 | 07/12/2018 |
Parked at brow of the hill by the road and walked back up to the summit. | clivevilla | 09/09/2018 |
as for iannots | arranc | 21/03/2018 |
Sharp Haw, Rough Haw, Flasby Fell, Brown Bank, High Crag | keithouk | 04/03/2018 |
short walk from road side parking to trig point | iannotts | 30/09/2017 |
Final one of day which started at Linton and included Elbolton, Kail Hill, Thorpe Fell, Cracoe Fell, Brown Bank and this one. Then walked back to Skipton Station | trimarc2 | 23/05/2017 |
Second of the day, walked across from Brown Bank, short deviation off north-south path from Bread Stone. Continued back to Embsay and Skipton station to complete a decent short trip. | JOHNS | 21/05/2017 |
From the car park on the top of Halton Moor then off on a two day backpack. | mick | 21/09/2016 |
High Crag from Halton East | ronaldo333 | 11/08/2016 |
K Whitewashed trig sneakily hidden by the cairn on walk up using sketchy tracks through the heather. Nice view with the reservoir looking welcoming for a dip in the sun but there is a large black cloud coming with snow and hail so I'm off. | crazy | 26/03/2016 |
12.3 mile circular from car park at Halton Moor walked up to Halton Height (High Crag), then followed lane up to Brown Bank, across to the cross then onto Cracoe Fell (Watt Crag), walked back down wall to another lane then cut across heather to Thorpe Fell Top trig, cut back to lane then followed lanes to Upper Barden Reservoir dam back to the car park. Bagged Sharp Haw and Rough Haw earlier that day. | DanTrig | 11/02/2016 |
Swift ascent from E. | jimbloomer | 27/08/2015 |
Climbed from Eastby | robert | 03/08/2015 |
As part of a circular route of High Crag, Brown Bank, Cracoe Fell and Thorpe Fell Top. Straightforward in terms of access and navigation. | JohnStoneham | 17/05/2015 |
Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 28/03/2015 |
Climbed this at 6:30 am on a pitch black January morning. Not to be recommended. Parking alongside the cattle grid on the road. | moorsman | 31/01/2014 |
Parked to the SE after the cattle grid for a 10 minute walk to back Halton Height trig and large cairn. Then off piste route to bag grid squares for Geograph before bagging Brown Bank, a P41 hill, then returned to car. | Dugswell2 | 23/11/2013 |
With Jo, walk from Halton Moor cp: High Crag, then onto Eastby Gate, across moor to the Shooting Hut and back along the track. Weather; high cloud, occasional sunny intervals, good visibility. | amblerbob | 13/11/2013 |
Last summit of a busy day above Skipton, and by far the easiest - followed little track from road to trig point, then back down and home to Embsay. | DanHolme | 05/10/2013 |
Walked up from nearby road.Good views.With Oscar. | catman | 12/05/2013 |
With Catman. | oscarrosie | 12/05/2013 |
Date approx. Nice approach up through gritstone crag /quarry Just along from Eastby crag -popular with climbers. | Chris Pearson | 15/09/2011 |
Rough grass verge parking on minor road to east at 
SE 03559 55225. Vague path to summit. Large cairn but trig is higher. | David Gradwell | 10/07/2011 |
Ample parking near cattle grid to NE. | agentmancuso | 18/04/2008 |
Short easy walk from parking spot on road above Eastby. Sizeable cairn plus trig. | Aye Jimmy | 28/03/2007 |
Skipton to Addingham via Halton Height and Haw Pike | Mac.Hawk | 14/02/2006 |
RHW | 04/10/2003 | |
With Michelle and Jamie Joseph aged eight and a half weeks. His first tump but his second trig pillar! S5313 4.38pm glorious sunny day with light breeze. | vegibagger | 28/08/1999 |