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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 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 259 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
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 Top | oldbagger27 | 21/11/2023 |
Dave Sargent | 14/09/2023 | |
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/72177720310490788 | SalmonJoe | 13/08/2023 |
Problem Child | 10/08/2023 | |
skeletonjo | 10/08/2023 | |
dickiewren | 06/08/2023 | |
Sham Sharrock | 01/07/2023 | |
Tonyshiv | 19/04/2023 | |
2W, 5WOs around Sleddle. | atreides7887 | 26/03/2023 |
ALHEJ Wilkins | 12/03/2023 | |
Selside Pike, Branstree, Tarn Crag, Grey Crag, Harrop Pike, Great Yarlside, Great Saddle Crag, Tongue Rigg, Glede Howe | keithouk | 26/02/2023 |
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. | JulieB | 12/12/2022 |
phil101 | 12/12/2022 | |
smapearce | 26/08/2022 | |
Archie | 25/08/2022 | |
KathW | 25/08/2022 | |
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 layby | Gary Heath | 29/04/2022 |
6 of 9 starting on a6 car park. Boggy on the route over from great yarlside. WO no. 6 | The-Z-Man | 17/04/2022 |
nigelcmason2 | 13/01/2022 | |
J-D-B | 01/01/2022 | |
Hillsidenick | 16/09/2021 | |
Michael Hood | 05/09/2021 | |
PJT | 30/08/2021 | |
After Sleddale Pike- a rough ascent | trimarc2 | 29/08/2021 |
From reservoir CP. Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag & Ulthwaite Rigg | Slash3 | 27/06/2021 |
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. | RobB | 02/06/2021 |
yorkielad | 22/04/2021 | |
adriancowl | 22/04/2021 | |
Ever Onward | 17/04/2021 | |
Craggy | 03/04/2021 | |
Scott Morley 86 | 06/03/2021 | |
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. | clivevilla | 11/10/2020 |
greenandblue | 02/10/2020 | |
pwithnall | 02/10/2020 | |
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. | Isbjorn | 26/08/2020 |
SteveG | 16/07/2020 | |
ALHEJ Wilkins | 20/06/2020 | |
Parked at highpoint of A6. Extended round of Crookdale taking in 10 Wainwright Outliers. | PGCE | 06/06/2020 |
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 June | Lazylizzie | 03/06/2020 |
Si's 2nd round | 24/05/2020 | |
Em's 2nd round | 24/05/2020 | |
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. | Chipstertrain | 14/05/2020 |
Jill Robertson | 19/03/2020 | |
amblemark | 19/03/2020 | |
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! | Vin | 05/03/2020 |
Whatshaw, Yarlside, Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank. With FR from A6 in mist | Bheinn | 21/01/2020 |
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. | Frank | 21/01/2020 |
conanharrod | 01/01/2020 | |
Kendall | 18/12/2019 | |
From A6 monument, day deterioted to low visibility and heavy rain | cjo | 07/12/2019 |