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| Name: | Shelter Crags North Top |
| Hill number: | 2391 |
| Height: | 775.7m / 2545ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2359 Scafell Pike |
| RHB Section: | 34B: Lake District - Central & Western Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Southern Fells |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness, Cumberland |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Esk (Ravenglass), Leven (Ulverston) |
| Watershed: | Morecambe Bay |
| Class: | Nuttall, Synge, Buxton & Lewis (N,Sy,BL) |
| Grid ref: | NY 24924 05729 |
| Summit feature: | cairn on rock |
| Drop: | 15.7m |
| Col: | 760m NY 2488 0568  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 89 90 (1:25k) OL6N |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 746 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Mountain Leader Summer Award Assessment Day 4/5. Mountain day, leadership, nav, emergency and other general skills. from Cold Pike camp traversed Crinkle crags and descended The Band. With forecast 50mph winds, descended to the valley to camp at the National Trust Campsite. Cloudy, daylight 10mph N'ly, visibility good, high ground water. | higlett | 21/11/2023 |
| With AJ. | DaveT | 07/11/2023 |
| Parked at NT ODG. Nuttal walk 5.3. Circuit around Pike o'Blisco, Great Knott, Cold Pike, Cold Pike W Top, Cold Pike Far W Top, Little Stand, Crinkle Crags S Top, Crinkle Crags Long Top, Shelter Crags, Shelter Crags N Top and White Stones just off the Band. Repeat visit for some of these from student days Breezy and in/out of cloud all day but enjoyable return visit to Langdale after many years. Solo | richard69 | 25/09/2023 |
| From Wrynose Bottom; Ulpha Fell (Little Stand), Crinkle Crags, Bowfell, Esk Pike, Great End, Ill Crag, Broad Crag, Scafell Pike, Mickledore Ridge, return via Moasdale. | Barns150 | 08/09/2023 |
| September 23 Heatwave week- breaking all records. High 20s today. With L long easy fun scramble in boots up the ravine of Crinkle Gill - frequent dunking of my shirt & hat to keep cool. 27 yrs ago I last scrambled up it when frozen with ice axes! Steep ascent out of the beautiful craggy corrie up to the main Crinkles ridge at Mickledore. Over all the Crinkle tops (of which there are many) and down The Band. Good clear view of the complex terrain to the west where Darren and I had debacle finding a control on the OMM last year in driving rain and cloud as I misread the control location! Found by chance on knoll top after we had given up looking below at crag foot on nasty slope above a ravine; then followed a brakes off run down grass above Hell Gill to Langdale. Today ambled in the stifling heat down the Band path. | Chris Pearson | 07/09/2023 |
| After Black Crags. Parked at Rossett Bridge. | PGCE | 06/09/2023 |
| All the Tops South to North then on to Bowfell etc. | NormanW | 13/07/2023 |
| Pike of Blisco - Cold Pike - Crinkle Crags - Bow Fell - Esk Pike - Rossett Pike | The Playful Pig | 06/05/2023 |
| Great Lakeland 3 Dayer | emily | 30/04/2023 |
| Wainwright Walk 57: Spider (Bowfell, Esk Pike, Crinkle Crags, Pike Of Blisco, Cold Pike & Rossett Pike) | DavidHiner | 07/04/2023 |
| Loop from ODGH. Pike of Blisco, Great Knott, Cold Pike X3. Little Stand, Crinkle Crags, Shelter Crags, White Stones. | Longwojo | 05/02/2023 |
| Great Langdale campsite to Pike of Blisco, Cold Pike, Cold Pike West Top, Cold Pike Far West Top, Little Stand, Great Knott, Crinkle Crags South Top, Crinkle Crags - Long Top, Shelter Crags, Shelter Crags North Top. | Peter Fieldsend | 22/10/2022 |
| With Jus, Cat & Jim. Loop from Langdale, up the band, across Crinkle Crags, down to Cold Pike and back down via Red Tarn and Oxendale. Tough going given that we were all either injured, ill or exhausted! However, a glorious day enjoyed by all, with amazing weather for October. Loved bagging a hill every few hundred feet on the crinkles! | wheresthepath | 02/10/2022 |
| Esk Pike, Bowfell and Crinkle Crags from Cockley Beck Bridge. First ascent of Esk Pike from the upper Duddon Valley for me and the desolate but romantic head of Eskdale - splendid scenery. The route visited many not previously climbed Birketts and Synges. 20 summits topped during the day, order of ascent: Painet Knott, Throstlehow Crag, Scar Lathing, High Gait Crags, Yeatyrigg Crags, Pike de Bield, Esk Pike, Bowfell North Top, Bowfell, Shelter Crags N Top, Shelter Crags, Gunson Knott, 4th Crinkle, 3rd Crinkle, Crinkle Crags, Crinkle Crags South Top, Great Knott, Cold Pike Far West Top, Cold Pike West Top, Cold Pike. 23km with 1400m of ascent, taking 8h 40m. | silverwolf_alan | 20/09/2022 |
| First mountain and first wild camp with Andrii. ODG - Great Knott - Crinkle Crags - Three tarns (camp) - ODG. | hannah&steven | 01/06/2022 |
| The Band to Pike O'Blisco via Crinkle Crags | trimarc2 | 20/04/2022 |
| Solo. Last of the little tops before the climb up to Bow Fell. | Dangerous Dave | 22/03/2022 |
| Fun 25km slog across the Langdale Skyline, got pretty wet towards the end. | atreides7887 | 11/11/2021 |
| Parked at 3 Shires Stone. Circular across Crinkle Crags to Bow Fell and return. Sunny day with some cloud. Great visibility. Hard going but straightforward (even over the Bad Step) | Argentum66 | 12/09/2021 |
| Climbed from Wrynose Bottom at head of Dunnerdale, up Cold Pike, Crinkle Crags, Bowfell via Climbers Traverse, Yew Bank and Hard Knott (both tops). 12.5 miles, 4800 ft ascent. | mavero10 | 05/06/2021 |
| 10.7 miles 3869ft walk. Start at Great Langdale NT campsite to Pike of Blisco, Great Knott, Cold Pike, Little Stand Crinkle Crags and Shelter Crags, return down Earing Crag to Great Langdale. | stephenbuda | 17/05/2021 |
| With Chris in superb weather. First time back in the Lakes after lockdown relaxation. The classic Crinkle Crags and Bowfell ridge walk, visiting a total of 21 summits from Dungeon Ghyll. Visited: Brown Howe, Great Knott, Cold Pike, Cold Pike West Top, Cold Pike Far West Top, Little Stand, Stonesty Pike, Crinkle Crags South Top, Crinkle Crags - Long Top, Crinkle Crags – 3rd Crinkle, Crinkle Crags – 4th Crinkle, Crinkle Crags – Gunson Knott, Shelter Crags, Crinkle Crags North Top, Bowfell, Bowfell North Top, Esk Pike, Tongue Head, Rossett Pike, Buck Pike, Black Crags. 27.7km with 1630m ascent in 11h30m. | silveracorn_alan | 03/04/2021 |
| Joe’s Steve Parr 61 | Jim T | 15/10/2020 |
| With: solo; Cumbria Way Day 2. From camp by Torver Beck via Goat's Hawse then to 'Old Man, Coniston Fells down to Wrynose Pass. Then by Red Tarn over Crinkle Crags to Three Tarns. | Ian Baines | 13/10/2020 |
| Along the Crinkles with Lucy | Nab Scar | 10/10/2020 |
| Crinkle Crags Round from Sticklebarn CP | screeleep | 10/10/2020 |
| Langdale-Pike O'Blisco-Crinkle Crags-Shelter Crags-Shelter Crags North Top(Missed on several previous visits)-Three Tarns-Hell Gill-Langdale On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 14/09/2020 |
| With Jules Jill and Jo from Wrynose Pass | Grey Hare | 31/08/2020 |
| Revisit with Pete | Dave Geere | 19/01/2020 |
| With Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 19/01/2020 |
| Dungeon Ghyll -> Pike of Blisco -> Cold Pike -> Cold Pike West Top -> Cold Pike Far West Top -> Great Knott -> Crinkle Crags South Top -> Crinkle Crags Long Top -> Shelter Crags -> Shelter Crags North Top -> Bow Fell -> Esk Pike -> Rossett Pike -> High Raise -> Thurnacar Knott -> Harrison Stickle -> Pike of Stickle -> Loft Crag -> Dungeon Ghyll. | axoree | 14/09/2019 |
| With Ian. | PeteF | 03/07/2019 |
| Marshall WtW no.18. | Sedge | 06/06/2019 |
| Circuit from Langdale to pick off hills previously missed: White Stones -> Shelter Crags N Top -> Crinkle Crag 4 & 3 -> Stonesty Pike -> Great Knott -> Brown Howe. Started raining as we left the car park, didn't stop until returning to the car park - a dreich day. With nephy Andrew P. | jonglew | 26/04/2019 |
| Stickle Ghyll Car Park, Langdale - Pike O Blisco - Cold Pike - Crinkle Crags - Bow Fell - Esk Pike - Rossett Pike - Stickle Ghyll Car Park, Langdale | eviljeff9 | 14/07/2018 |
| Ate a scotch egg on summit for lunch in trimarc2's honour (last seen here 23/01/1983). 34km running and fast hiking from Yewfield B&B: Great How, Pike of Blisco, Great Knott, Crinkle Crags (all tops), Shelter Crags (both tops), Cold Pike (all tops). With GFE | Fionalevey | 02/06/2018 |
| Afternoon ascent from NT campsite in Langdale of Shelter Crags North Top (775m) via the band. On to Shelter Crags (815m) as the weather became overcast, then Crinkle Crags - Long Top (859m), and Crinkle Crags South Top (834m) with nasty scramble as descended through cloud towards final peak of the outing, Great Knott (696m). Returned to Langdale. 12.3Km, 791m ascent. | VirtualMountain | 10/05/2018 |
| Nuttall route from Great Knott to Shelter Crags. In the clag throughout, so lots and lots of compass work. Great fun! | huwthomas | 06/11/2017 |
| Dave and Talisker | Mountain Goat | 20/10/2017 |
| A misty traverse of Crinkle Crags and Shelter Crags. Thank goodness for a good compass and a GPS. | clivevilla | 21/09/2017 |
| Head of the langdales A long day Pike of Blisco Cold Pike Crinkle crags Bow Fell Esk Pike Rossett Pike | Tobo1969 | 19/09/2017 |
| Dungeon Gill - Oxendale - Crinkle Crags - Bowfell - Angle Tarn - Mickleden - Dungeon Ghyl (19K, 1400m Ascent, 6.5hrs) Weather was generally good. Clouds on top of Crinkle Crags and a bit blowy. Bowfell clear. Some cracking views down the valley back to the Dungeon Ghyl. Some minor scrambling around Crinkle Crags. Overall a cracking route (walked with Rach). | scholesy | 05/08/2017 |
| From Whitestones - The Band. Evening traverse of Bowfell lovely but must ask the National Park if they can discourage cairn building. On to Stonesty Pike. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/07/2017 |
| From the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel. A huge 12 mile hike in a blustery July day with a fair bit of mist. Great Knott, Crinkle Crags South Top, Crinkle Crags Long Top, Crinkle Crags Gunson Knott, Shelter Crags, Shelter Crags north top, Bowfell, Rossett Pike. | Lazylizzie | 09/07/2017 |
| From the Band with Marcus. | Lykewake42 | 28/05/2017 |
| Another trip to the Lakes, this time with eyes on some of the southern central fells. Bethany and I had been recommended Crinkle Crags by an Uncle for a decent fells, good veiws and recent footfall - he wasnt' wrong, we saw maybe 3 other groups in total during the day. It was an almost overcast day, but warm enough. Starting from Great Langdale, we took the path up along Owendale Beck, with a stop by a fairy pool, and a lie down on the grass towards the top. Up top was chilly, with some fun small scrambles, after bagging the Shelter crags and all 5 Crinkles, we decended down the over Great Knott, and back to Oxendale west of Pike O'Blisco. 5hrs 30mins: 11.1km; 888m | ByronHaywood | 29/04/2017 |
| Climbed solo. Old Dungeon Ghyll - Wall End - Pike O' Blisco - Red Tarn - Cold Pike (plus West and Far West tops) - Great Knott - Crinkle Crags (South Top, Long Top, 4th and 5th Crinkles) - Shelter Crags (plus North Top) - Three Tarns - The Band - Stool End - Old Dungeon Ghyll. 6 hours. Dry Weather. Mostly sunny but some cloud and mist patches. Getting colder later. Had major problem with new boots pinching toenail ... coming down the Band very slow and painful! | jamessteel100 | 10/04/2017 |
| on Way to Crinkle Crags and Bowfell, Snowy Hike | jmistry86 | 04/03/2017 |
| Solo. Route S-N on ridge plan. No views. | Statto | 22/02/2017 |
| Solo fr Old D.G. Hotel via Pike of Blisco & all of Crinkle Crags. Running/scrambling. Clear and glorious weather, blue skies, though clouding over. | NorfolkPT21 | 25/10/2016 |