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Name:Scafell
Hill number:2360
Height:963.9m / 3162ft
Parent (Ma):2359  Scafell Pike
RHB Section:34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Lake District - Southern Fells
County/UA:Cumberland
Catchment:Esk (Ravenglass), Catchment Boundaries, Irt
Class:Hump, Simm, Furth, Hewitt, Nuttall,
Wainwright, Birkett, High Hills of Britain, Synge, Fellranger,
Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Clem, Trail 100
(Hu,Tu,Sim,F,Hew,N,W,B,HHB,Sy,Fel,BL,Bg,Cm,T100)
Grid ref:NY 20682 06478
Summit feature:cairn on rock N of windshelter
Drop:132.2m
Col:831.6m  NY 2102 0690  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 89 90
(1:25k) OL6N
Survey:Abney level/Leica RX1250
Comments:Formerly on Marilyn list
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Scafell and Slight Side from Wha House Farm. Again misty, but a brief glimpse of a view from Scafell's summit. The rocks are very slippery after the many months of rain - care required. 14km with 1050m ascent, taking me 6 hours, there and back.silverwolf_alan19/02/2024
https://www.komoot.com/tour/1430523102Modestas03/02/2024
From Gill Bankrfoster23/09/2023
To be addedJames McKnight09/09/2023
From Wha House. 16 km, 1050 m asc. Up by the Cat Cove path to Slight Side and Scafell. S to Great How, Whinscales, Dawsonground Crags, Whin Crag and Goat Crag. Dry, warm. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720310491689SalmonJoe10/08/2023
Parked at NT Wasdale Head. SIMMS on Nuttall 5.1 plus Illgill Head. Lingmell > Great End > Ill Crag > Broad Crag > Scafell Pike > (via Lord's Rake) Scafell > Illgill HeadPeter_W_Mitchell 15/06/2023
Great Lakeland 3 Dayeremily29/04/2023
Corridor route / Lord's Rake from SeathwaiteHuwel23/02/2023
Brackenclose, Maiden Castle, Hard Rigg, Scafell, Green How, Brackenclose. Freezing fog made scree slippery with rime.Isbjorn02/01/2023
Snowy/sunny/cloudy at top.Amanda&JamesExplore02/01/2023
R via Green How Richard Tait22/12/2022
Damp and claggy solo day doing Lingmell, Scafell Pike, Sca Fell and Slight Side. Scafell Pike summit was empty (apart from me!)Winter Round01/12/2022
Stayed at Eskdale YH the night before, the staff allowed me to keep my car there on 26th, while I did the hike. Walked along the road to Wha House and followed the well defined path between the Crags and up to Slight Side, then onto Sca Fell. Great views in all directions, sunny until half way down when I brief shower caught me. Returned via the same route, as on the ascent I visited the wrong (lower) north summit, so on the descent I visited the southern summit, which now looks lower....06:20hrs all in.chillyman826/09/2022
From Wha House via Cam Spout, returning via Slight Sidesqueegs23/09/2022
Lingmell,Middleboot Knotts, Round Haw,Great End,Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike, Symonds Knott, Scafell. From NT car park at Wasdale Head. Tough dayLongwojo19/09/2022
From NT campsite in Wasdale, up to Mickeldore Col then descended to climb Fox Tarn path. Scafell and Symonds Knott summits then descended via the grassy West slope. 2nd walk of the day after Morning walk in poor condition on Lingmell, treated to perfect evening conditions on the summits. With R.Dan Baddeley04/09/2022
Did Lords Rake, Symonds Knott, and then finally reached the summit of Scafell. A very technical but fascinating Summit to do part of the final county Top of England, Scafell Pike.DavidHiner31/08/2022
From small car park at Wha House Farm to Slight Side, Scafell and Symonds Knott.dgresty17/08/2022
Via foxes tarn. Walked with Dad and Jennifer.AJScourfield09/08/2022
MY FINAL WAINWRIGHT. Thanks Alfred for the inspiration. With the crew. Prosecco in the clag on the summit.Fionalevey06/08/2022
Great day despite the mist, Fiona's final Wainwrighttrimarc206/08/2022
With CP and YPgarth8705/08/2022
From Wha House. 16 km, 950 m asc. To Brotherilkeld and along the E side of The river Esk to cross Lincove Bridge. Continue up the E bank and cross opposite the base of Cam Spout. Up the RH side of the Spout and onto and into Foxes Tarn Gully and up to Foxes Tarn. Up the scree to the Cross in the Col, detour to Symonds Knott then SW to Scafell summit. Down the S ridge to Slight Side summit and back by the Catcove Beck path to Wha House. Warm, dry, misty on the tops. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720300936419SalmonJoe29/07/2022
From Brackenclose, Wasedale Campsite, up Lingmell, Scafell Pike, Scafell via Foxes Tarn, back down to Wasedale 10.73km. With Ben. Cloud covering the top on and off through the day. We waited about 20 minutes on the summit to get a good view.Victor13/07/2022
from the Pike via Foxes Tarn GulleyWindsor Wool28/05/2022
R by WWT excellent but tricky.. Rockfall? Richard Tait17/05/2022
With RobLynfa Penygarn19/03/2022
Ascent from EskdaleLewisMat07/03/2022
With: hb sb ab nh jmf; From CP at base of Hard Knott Pass, to Wha House, then Terrace Route to Slight Side (My last Wainwright). Up to Sca Fell then down via Foxes Tarn and Eskdale to Brotherilkeld and CP. Brilliant weather.Ian Baines06/03/2022
Jubilee Bridge -> Goat Crag -> Bull How -> Dawsonground Crags -> Cat Crag -> Slight Side -> Scafell -> Foxes Tarn -> Damas Dubs -> Jubilee Bridgebriandiggle17/01/2022
Started at Eskdale - Slight side- Scafell - Lingmell. Beautiful November day and descended into Wasdale for a lovely lunch. 9.5 miles 3879 ft elevationnell158313/11/2021
The ascent of Scafell from Wha House, via Slight Side, Symonds Knott, returning via Slight Side, Great How and Boat How to Boot. A wonderful November day in the Lakes, with a mixture of vivid blue sky and mist drifting around the hills. Even a sighting a splendid Brocken Spectre from Symonds Knott. 21km with 1200m ascent in 7h30m. (S)silveracorn_alan13/11/2021
Raining all night and due to continue all day, my companion planned to enjoy a day in the pub but dropped me at the top end of Wast Water and left me to it. Main route up Scafell Pike impassable due to river crossing in torrent, so plodded up to saddle between Scafell and Illgill then turned NE and climbed up streaming slopes towards Scafell and summit. Managed to descent to Foxes tarn but thought better of it with everything in torrent and returned the way i had come , descending to Burnmoor tarn with the whole bowl awash. Descending to E of tarn looked a safer bet and followed track to Boot then glad to be on tarmac, road to pub in Santonrichardrosser27/10/2021
Came up Lord’s Rake and up to Symonds Knott. Solo. W183 Rnd6.Dangerous Dave11/10/2021
From Wasdale Head NT car park with Lucy. Cloud below 1,000 feet. By Foxes Tarn from Mickledore.Nab Scar26/09/2021
with Tony after Broad Stand HardenC15/09/2021
Weather - Low cloud, poor visibility ... Route: circular from Wha house farm - slight side - Scafell- Burnmoor Tarn - Boot.R & K06/09/2021
R by WWT superb 2hr 14 moving Richard Tait02/09/2021
Via Lingmell Gill, Hollow Stones, Broad Stand, climb the gully to Foxes Tarn then descent via Green How. Solo. Warm even at summit and light winds made for good walking. Views on the lea side to E.RoguePulsar10/08/2021
Ascended from summit of Scafell Pike via Mickledore and Lord's Rake. Missed connecting path from Mickledore ridge so had to descend/reascend around 100m to entrance of Lord's Rake, which was not as steep or difficult as it appeared from a distance. Stuck to RHS of the gully in the first section in ascent and LHS on third and final section of ascent. Descended west from summit of Scafell via Green How and Hollow Gill joining wide bridleway near Wasdale Head Hall Farm following this back to NT car park.southern_rambler01/08/2021
Solo - Via Lord's Rake. Visibility - what summit?jthomson6nr910/07/2021
Green how route. Nice and cloudyelectricratman10/07/2021
See Kamoot entry for full details/gpx download: https://www.komoot.com/tour/409828071outlawcatcher04/07/2021
10.5 mile circular from national trust car park. Followed grassy-sometimes-boggy paths across the wilderness up to the steep pull on Slight Side. From there it is a fairly easy sometimes rocky ridge up to the summit. From the summit we easily bagged Symonds Knott then descended awful loose stone path from just below Scafell summit west; this disappears when the screes finish and turns into pathless boggy moorland. We finally found a path and took it down to Burnmoor Tarn. From there along beck and over Lambford Bridge (in a poor state of repair) along footpath which is rather boggy in places to Eel Tarn then down to the Woolpack Inn and along road back to the car park. Not many people about. The day started sunny as we had great views off summit but as we descended Scafell it went into the cloud. About 1000m ascent on walk.DanTrig28/06/2021
Ravine to Foxes tarn ok going up. Better views near Symonds knottAdventurers517/06/2021
Hardknott pass - Eskdale - Cam Spout - Mickeldore - Lingmell - Scafell (Lord's Rake) - Slight side - Hardknott pass. Had the top to myself as I looked across to the crowds on Scafell Pikehannah&steven06/06/2021
Having spent Fri – Tues in Barmouth with the kids and meeting up with Becs family we had a well earned day to ourselves and finally doing the famous Lords rake route to Scafell. We set off at 04:07 and after nearly hitting a deer on the way and seeing a couple more and a fox we parked at wasdale. I had a dump in a hole then we set off at about 6:30. I felt really good all day and before we knew it we’d crossed the beck and was at the foot of the scree. This was very steep to the start of LR. At LR we took it in turns moving to avoid falling rocks. Absolutely loved it though and soon got to the fallen chokstone. From there we headed to WWT then up deep gill. Getting a picture were AW sat at the exit of the gill B4 getting to the summit. This is an amazing route one of the very best and unlike the busy pike we had it all to ourselves. Fantastic in every way.Scotty 2 Hotty02/06/2021
With IanTheslayer23/05/2021
Wha house farm CP > Goat Crag > Slight Side > Scafell > Great How > Whinscales > Dawsonground Crags > Wha house farm CP. Solo walk. Stunning day once again with great views and lots of sunshine. Lost the will so left Whin Crag unbagged for the day.johnkaysleftleg18/05/2021
Pen, Scafell Pike, Symonds Knott, Scafell, Slight Side, High Scarthkeithouk01/05/2021