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| Name: | High Rigg |
| Hill number: | 16889 |
| Height: | 202m / 663ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2831 Cringle Moor - Drake Howe |
| RHB Section: | 37: The River Tees to The Wash |
| County/UA: | North Yorkshire |
| Catchment: | Ouse (York) |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SE 50379 82985 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 34m |
| Col: | 168m SE503835  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 100 (1:25k) OL26S |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 34 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Sutton Bank carpark, down steep muddy path to Gormire, up more muddy paths through bracken to the broken fence posts below summit and then through shrubs and bracken to top Lake Gormire was worth a visit | matty1971b | 10/03/2024 |
| Up the PROW to the rear of hill up animal tracks to collapsed section of fence. Top is gorse covered. More direct return to sutton bank road along PROw. | cjo | 21/01/2023 |
| Sutton Bank carpark, down steep path to Gormire, up deer path through bracken ti broken fence posts below summit and then shove through shrubs and bracken to top. On to Skipton Hill and Boltby Scar. | Flatfield | 01/01/2023 |
| 4 of 5 on 12 mile hike starting at white horse car park. From the main road straight up. The footpath bends around this one and the top is on private land so quick check and then over the fence. 2 deers running about at the top. Straight up and over and back down to gormire lake | The-Z-Man | 27/12/2021 |
| High Rigg > Skipton Hill from GR: SE 50573 82553. From public right of way footpath from south to SE 50441 82772 then follow west of fence line NNW on path through tree cover to SE 50337 82941, still a brutal last 100m or so through bracken and gorse to summit. | ronaldo333 | 23/09/2021 |
| From S. | jimbloomer | 18/08/2021 |
| 'Dangerous' building now demolished. Via bridleway to south, return by tiny footpath along forget-me-not bank to south. Nice woodland round Gormire lake. Noisy road and aircraft. OK but not the finest hill of two great days. | Wycombe Wanderer | 02/05/2021 |
| Footpaths from the south currently legally closed owing to a dangerous building. No alternatives available so I had to go from Sutton Bank via Gormire. (No parking on the roads to the north) Once the path around the south of the lake is reached there are tracks, of sorts, leading up to an uncrossable high fence with 2 strands of barbed wire topping it. However, if you follow this towards its high point as it circles the hill, shortly before it reaches its highest point 2 uprights are rotten and allow you to step over it. Top appears to be a gap in the shrub cover. A long, tedious route and you have to pay for parking! | moorsman | 14/04/2021 |
| For determined badgers! Up from the lake, through dense bracken with an unnecessarily nasty barbed wire fence running along the hill just below the summit. Views grin the top ok, but you get better views of both the lake and across the vale from the top of the cliffs, especially considering the relative efforts! | MrChris1980 | 24/07/2020 |
| After swimming in Gormire Lake. | Fionalevey | 24/05/2020 |
| Run out with Tali from Sutton Bank | Mountain Goat | 18/11/2018 |
| From the track to the south. No parking other than awkward pull of onto verge with a curb on busy road. Part farm then left along path by lake up to west end of ridge. Hazards of old bits of chicken wire enclosure but with holes in it. Difficult terrain near summit deep bracken, extra sharp new barbed wire fence to cross plus hawthorn, gorse, bramble hidden in the bracken plus nettle. All made this little hill summit feel like a little shite..!! | vegibagger | 24/09/2018 |
| Approached from north east / Gor mere Lake up steep, snowy overgrown hillside with many badger setts. summit is grassy with nice views but exposed. Double barbed wire fence with Hawthorne inside dis encourages ascent from south. | Denise | 02/12/2017 |
| N side, up slope of dead bracken. Small grassy summit SE of clump of gorse. | RichardM | 02/12/2017 |
| Climbed on a 7 Tump circular walk with Darren from Kilburn passing Gormire Lake where two swimmers were bobbing leisurely around. The tranquil lake features on Wild Swimming website where people bag / log swims (a strange hobby?). One poster recalls swimming there a lot in the 70s and frequently meeting James Heriot who was a vet in Thirsk and used to walk his dogs there. The hill stares across to Whitestone Crag where lies a climb on my wish list: The Night Watch (VS 4b) which is described on UK climbing as 'The classic corner crack with a truly epic feel to it. Probably the best single pitch VS in the country'. That is some claim. According to one poster on uk climbing (another website for logging activities)apparently its an 'awesome route with weird eroded limestone with harder pebbles which don't erode and you can get your hands around and lots of threads for slings, and mostly well balanced bridging all the way up'. Sounds fun. | Chris Pearson | 26/07/2016 |
| Solo. Up by the barbed-wire fence from Gormire Lake. Squeezed under a gap in the fence just yards from the summit. A surprisingly easy bag. | Dangerous Dave | 24/04/2016 |
| With Jo, from Sutton Bank VC: Cleveland Way, then Nature Trail to Gormire Lake and then along fence to High Rigg, returning past the lake and then tracks through South Woods back onto the CW, then onto Boltby Scar, returning via Hambleton Down trig. Weather; sunny intervals, mild, moderate visibility. | amblerbob | 03/04/2016 |
| Group run from Club, along the bank top and around the lake, taking in the Rigg. | cackleberry | 10/01/2016 |
| Overcast, cool wind on ridge, dry. with Boltby Scar from Boltby | joseph mitchell | 17/05/2015 |
| Layby on A170 to S of hill. About 70m to W is public f/p stile hidden in hedge and gate with legend 'No sledging'! Across field and up to second stile, don't go over, keep left through trees and bushes to avoid public bwf. Still need to cross higher up, but easier and more discreetly. Grassy summit ridge with gorse at one end. | Aye Jimmy | 25/05/2014 |
| from S | RHW | 02/02/2013 |
| date approx., early walking out from Grimsby. Took this in on way up from Sutton Bank to Helmsley | nordicstar | 01/05/1985 |
| Tricky | 21/09/2023 | |
| jordanwalmsley1987 | 27/12/2021 | |
| Bag For Life | 02/05/2021 | |
| timus | 01/04/2021 | |
| Adrian | 03/07/2019 | |
| ngthack | 19/10/2018 | |
| carole engel | 27/08/2018 | |
| Martin R | 26/01/2017 | |
| GordonAdshead | 10/05/2016 | |
| Fellhugger | 11/04/2015 | |
| Sherlock | 25/06/2013 | |
| Nobblynuts | blank |