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| Name: | Lad Stones |
| Hill number: | 8020 |
| Height: | 616m / 2021ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2634 The Old Man of Coniston [Coniston Old Man] |
| RHB Section: | 34D: Southern Cumbria |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Southern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Catchment: | Leven (Ulverston) |
| Class: | Synge (Sy) |
| Grid ref: | SD 29194 99857 |
| Summit feature: | outcrop |
| Drop: | 2m |
| Col: | 614m SD292998  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 96 97 (1:25k) OL6N |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 237 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Wetherlam to Coniston Old Man | trimarc2 | 20/03/2024 |
| Old Guyson Wetherlan circuit | HardenC | 16/03/2024 |
| Park Fell, Black Fell, Holme Fell, Birk Fell Man, Wetherlam, Lad Stones | keithouk | 18/02/2024 |
| From the car park in Low free Tilberthwaite for Birketts Six and a quarter mile Tilberthwaite and Yewdale walk. Ten tops with aditional excursions to Birk fell man, Lad stones and Yewdale crag. Completed in around Six and half hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 27/01/2024 |
| Staying at Coniston YH with Alex McBride for the weekend, we headed up Walna Scar Road (a track really) for a circuit covering eight summits. Five of which were Hewitts and Wainwrights, two were just Wainwrights and one was just a Hewitt. Alex is bagging the Wainwrights, while I'm doing the Hewitts. Summits in order: Dow Crag (774m), H and W Old Man of Coniston (803m), H and W Brim Fell (796m), W Grey Frair (773m), H and W Great Carr (785m), W Swirl How (802m), H and W Black Sails (745m), H Wetherlam (763m), H and W | chillyman8 | 21/10/2023 |
| From Coniston youth hostel. Nuttall walk 5.5 in reverse. Circuit of Walna Scar, White Maiden, Brown Pike, Buck Pike, Dow Crag, Old Man of Coniston, Brim Fell, Little How Crags, Great How, Great Carrs, Grey Friar, Swirl How, Black Sails, Wetherlam and Lad Stones. Blustery day in the aftermath of Storm Agnes, in/out of cloud all day with some showers but enjoyable revisit to many of the tops. Solo. | richard69 | 28/09/2023 |
| with L in heatwave ascending Wetherlam - starting to get hill legs back after 5 weeks in Cornwall. Only 39 years since I was last here when I came down this ridge. | Chris Pearson | 04/09/2023 |
| On SLMM 2023 | Rockdoctor | 01/07/2023 |
| From Coniston bus 505. Weather was pretty grim so took a while to find the summit. Wetherlam, Black Sail then dropped down as cold and windy. | Fionalevey | 30/06/2023 |
| With Inge, Liz and Catherine. With the packs - very heavy but lovely day! 5 miles to camp at Levers Water. 5 miles 2430 ft elevation. | nell1583 | 20/05/2023 |
| Coniston loop. Lad Stones, Wetherlam, Black Sails, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Grey Friars, Brim Fell, Old Man, Dow Crag, Walna Scar, White Pike, White Maiden. Just over 7 hours in warm sun. Great day. | Longwojo | 13/05/2023 |
| A gruelling but rewarding 17 mile, 9.5 hour circular(ish) round ticking off 16 tops; Starting at free roadside parking just before the church at Bowmanstead, Kitty Crag-Lad Stones-Wetherlan-Black Sails-Swirl How-Great Carrs-Little Carrs-Hell Gill Pike-Grey Friar-Grey How-Little How Crags-Brim Fell-O.M.o.Coniston-Dow Crag-Buck Pike-Brown Pike and returned via Banishead Quarry. | Alfa1M | 04/05/2023 |
| Started off at Tilberthwaite and walked up the Langdale Fells, then on to Wetherlam. From there, headed out to Grey Friar and descended Wet Side Edge. From there, a climb up to the Tilberthwaite Fells. | oldbagger27 | 18/04/2023 |
| From Coniston, scramble up Long Crag, Kitty Crag, Lad Stones, Wetherlam, Black Sail, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Grey Friar, Brim Fell and The Old Man of Coniston. | welshyboyo | 03/03/2023 |
| On descent of Wetherlam | KeithByTheC | 07/12/2022 |
| Coniston, coppermines on to Wetherlamb | Flatfield | 19/11/2022 |
| Walk to Wetherlam. Really enjoyable from Coniston, decided not to go to Grey Friar and Great Carr as we would have lost the light | ejjohnstone | 25/10/2022 |
| On route back from wetherlam laura kay n flo | Lauralj84 | 29/09/2022 |
| With J | GCW | 20/07/2022 |
| Coniston - Wetherlam - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Grey Friar - Brim Fell - Old Man of Coniston - Dow Crag - Coniston | JHes | 21/06/2022 |
| On the way down from Wetherlam. The path goes over this knob of rock. The cairned outcrop further up by the small tarn would be a better summit for Lad Stones. Solo. Pleasant walk back to Tilberthwaite. | Dangerous Dave | 23/03/2022 |
| on way up Wetherlam | trimarc2 | 17/03/2022 |
| 8 of 9 starting at coniston sports centre on 10.9 mile hike after an overnight in the motorhome. Steep and hard work from kitty crag. Even harder seen as though it was unplanned | The-Z-Man | 27/02/2022 |
| An exploration of the Birketts and Synges on Wetherlam, including: Blake Rigg, Haystacks, Hawk Rigg, High Fell (Hawk Rigg), Great Intake – Low Fell, Birk Fell Man (Birk Fell), Wetherlam, Black Sails, Lad Stones, Kitty Crag, Long Crag – Yewdale Fells, High Wythow, Low Wythow, Yewdale Crag, and Brackeny Crag. 16km with 1000m of ascent in 6h 40m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 10/07/2021 |
| From Wetherlam. | Isbjorn | 11/10/2020 |
| Lovely 20km walk from Coniston with Long Crag scramble, a round of 6 Wainwrights, and a swim in Low Water on the way back down. | atreides7887 | 20/09/2020 |
| Thick cloud on The Old Man so we opted for a potter around his lower Fells. From the village up the Mine Road then north along the narrow path to Lad Stones. In cloud so headed back down to Kitty Crag, Long Crag, High Wythow, Low Wythow and Brackeny Crag. Back to the village via Yewdale Crag and then a hairy, bracken camouflaged path. | summitter | 16/07/2020 |
| Circular from Tilberthwaite with Jules and Jill | Grey Hare | 11/07/2020 |
| Revisit with Pete | Dave Geere | 10/11/2019 |
| From Erin Crag. Someone's put in some good work dismantling unnecessary and misleading cairns. I put the boot into a few they'd missed. On to Birk Fell. | Wycombe Wanderer | 14/04/2019 |
| From Coniston on way to Wetherlam and on the Old Man of Coniston. | NormanW | 12/04/2019 |
| W/The Lads. From Tilberthwaite. | Sedge | 23/03/2019 |
| With Sue from Little Langdale via Weatherlam Edge to summit 0f Weatherlam. Storm Freya came in making day bit damp. Descended via Lad Stones and then on to Kitty, Long Crags, High and Low Wythow, Brackeny Crag. Return via mines and Tilberthwaite. | Frank | 02/03/2019 |
| On the way down from Wetherlam doing Birkett`s Con 4 walk | mart0797 | 26/02/2019 |
| From Coniston. With Sail, Danú, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 30/10/2018 |
| On the Wetherlam round from Tilberthwaite. | BobHancock | 25/08/2018 |
| With Jules and Jill on the Way to Wetherlam | Grey Hare | 04/08/2018 |
| From Coniston | rfoster | 02/05/2018 |
| Walna Scar CP > Goat's Hawse > Dow Crag > Goat's Hawse > The Old Man of Coniston > Brim Fell > Great How (Swirl Band) > Grey Friar > Great Carrs > Swirl How > Swirl Hawse > Black Sails > Wetherlam > Lad Stones > Walna Scar CP. Fine but largely cloudy great walking day, just me and H | johnkaysleftleg | 14/04/2018 |
| With Rick Salter on a pleasant round of mainly Synges. Windy on the tops, otherwise a fine day. | jonglew | 01/11/2017 |
| With Jon Glew using good parking nr Coppermines YH. Up behind the cottages sporting Yourkshire Mountaineering Club logo, steady rising track to col under Kitty Crag, then onwards to Lad Stones, Wetherlam, Black Sails, Erin Crag, Kennel Crag, via dam and the superb Raven Tor, sadly <P30, track to finish on The Bell. Paths and the fellside back to car. Good round in @4hrs on blustery, scatty cloud and cool day. | nordicstar | 01/11/2017 |
| On way to Wetherlam | eviljeff9 | 17/07/2017 |
| With Colin and Len. A cloudy day with some sun and some mist. | Flobbus | 22/05/2017 |
| As part of GL3D 2017 | Jim T | 29/04/2017 |
| Yewdale Crag, Brackeny Crag, Low Wythow, High Wythow, Long Crag, Kitty Crag, Lad Stones, Wetherlam, Swirl How, Great How, Little How Crags, Brim Fell, The Old Man of Coniston, The Bell | keithouk | 23/04/2017 |
| Coniston round | screeleep | 02/04/2017 |
| Pup | Littledave | 21/11/2016 |
| Banks, High Pike Haw, White Maiden, Walna Scar, Brown Pike, Buck Pike, Dow Crag, The Old Man of Coniston, Brim Fell, Little How Crags, Great How Crags, Swirl How, Wetherlam, Lad Stones | keithouk | 28/08/2016 |
| Coniston-Wetherlam-Old Man circuit from Thurston camp site. | PreCambrianLife | 18/06/2016 |
| Yewdale Fells on a wild day from Coniston: Yewdale Crag, Brackeny Crag, Low and High Low Wythows, Long Crag, Kitty Crag Lad Stones and Wetherlam summit. | Eddie | 30/01/2016 |