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Name:Great Saddle Crag
Hill number:2580
Height:560m / 1837ft
Parent (Ma):2559  Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
RHB Section:34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Lake District - Far Eastern Fells
County/UA:Westmorland and Furness
Catchment:Eden (Carlisle)
Class:Wainwright Outlying Fell, Birkett, Synge
(WO,B,Sy)
Grid ref:NY 52610 08660
Summit feature:no feature: grass
Drop:2m
Col:558m  NY526085  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 90
(1:25k) OL7N
Observations:summit is WO and Sy; cairn 50m E at NY 52657 08669 is 75cm lower and is B; outcrop 55m ESE at NY 52662 08646 is c.150cm lower
Survey:Abney level
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Interesting circuit from the A6 parking area of High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lord's Seat, Great Yarlside (Sy), Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Yarlside, little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common & Whatshaw Common East Topoldbagger2721/11/2023
Dave Sargent14/09/2023
From Wet Sleddale Dam. 14 km, 400 m asc. Up by Poorhag Gill, the Lunch House and Gray Bull to Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag and Ullthwaite Rigg. Back by the Sleddale Hall BW. Rough, boggy, pathless, unrelenting trudge. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720310490788SalmonJoe13/08/2023
Problem Child10/08/2023
skeletonjo10/08/2023
dickiewren06/08/2023
Sham Sharrock01/07/2023
Tonyshiv19/04/2023
2W, 5WOs around Sleddle.atreides788726/03/2023
ALHEJ Wilkins12/03/2023
Selside Pike, Branstree, Tarn Crag, Grey Crag, Harrop Pike, Great Yarlside, Great Saddle Crag, Tongue Rigg, Glede Howekeithouk26/02/2023
10 mile circuit from high point parking spot on the A6. Whatshaw Common, Little Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike. Frozen underfoot so the cross country bits weren't so bad.JulieB12/12/2022
phil10112/12/2022
smapearce26/08/2022
Archie25/08/2022
KathW25/08/2022
A6 layby - High House Bank - Robin Hood - Lord's Seat - Grey Crag - Harrop Pike - Ulthwaite Rigg - Great Saddle Crag - Wasdale Pike - Great Yarlside - Little Yarlside - Whatshaw Common (both tops) - A6 laybyGary Heath29/04/2022
6 of 9 starting on a6 car park. Boggy on the route over from great yarlside. WO no. 6The-Z-Man17/04/2022
nigelcmason213/01/2022
J-D-B01/01/2022
Hillsidenick16/09/2021
Michael Hood05/09/2021
PJT30/08/2021
After Sleddale Pike- a rough ascenttrimarc229/08/2021
From reservoir CP. Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag & Ulthwaite RiggSlash327/06/2021
Started from Reservoir Car Park to Wasdale Pike (via Lunch House) - Low Saddle Crag - Great Saddle Crag - Brown Howe - Ulthwaite Rigg - Tongue Rigg with return beside intake wall above deer enclosures.RobB02/06/2021
 yorkielad22/04/2021
adriancowl22/04/2021
Ever Onward17/04/2021
Craggy03/04/2021
Scott Morley 8606/03/2021
Parked on the A6 at 55384 06219, went down the hill to cross the river at Hause Foot before doing a horseshoe of High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lords Seat, Great Yarlside, Great Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common and Whatshaw Common E.Top. 3h 50m 9.64 miles.clivevilla11/10/2020
greenandblue02/10/2020
pwithnall02/10/2020
Parking at NY552051. An extended version of Wainwright's Crookdale horeshoe. High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lord's Seat, Great Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Great Saddle Crag, back to Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common, Whatshaw Common East Top, A6, back down to Hause Foot. Faint trods outbound, trackless waste around head of valley, excellent ATV track helped part way to Great Saddle Crag, otherwise lots of very wet boot wrecking tussock grass.Isbjorn26/08/2020
SteveG16/07/2020
ALHEJ Wilkins20/06/2020
Parked at highpoint of A6. Extended round of Crookdale taking in 10 Wainwright Outliers.PGCE06/06/2020
From the reservoir: Sleddale Pike, Great Saddle Crag and Ulthwaite Rigg, taking in the Lunch House and the Grey Bull, and returning by Tongue Rigg then Sleddale hall. Very hard walk going through heather and bog, windy and cold for JuneLazylizzie03/06/2020
Si's 2nd round24/05/2020
Em's 2nd round24/05/2020
Parked on top of Shap Fell in the big layby, Little Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Brown Howe, Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag and back via Great and Little Yarlside to layby.Chipstertrain14/05/2020
Jill Robertson19/03/2020
amblemark19/03/2020
A6 Shap Summit, Hazel Bank, Shap Quarry Mast, Wasdale Pike, Great Sleddale Crag, Sleddale Pike, Tongue Rigg, Ulthwaite Rigg, Harrop Pike, Lawyers Brow, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common, A6. Great area for solitude & marsh plants!Vin05/03/2020
Whatshaw, Yarlside, Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank. With FR from A6 in mistBheinn21/01/2020
With NB from A6,Whatshaw E top and Common, Little and Great Yarlside, Lawyers Brow, Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank on another misty damp day.Frank21/01/2020
conanharrod01/01/2020
Kendall18/12/2019
From A6 monument, day deterioted to low visibility and heavy raincjo07/12/2019