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Name:Aye Gill Pike
Hill number:2802
Height:556m / 1824ft
RHB Section:35B: The Central Pennines
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Yorkshire Dales - Southern Fells
County/UA:Westmorland and Furness
Catchment:Lune
Class:Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem
(Ma,Hu,Tu,5,Dew,Cm)
Grid ref:SD 72068 88613
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:167m
Col:389m  SD761888  
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 336 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From potholed carpark up wall line through various 'terrier' stiles (they snap at your ankles)daviemore19/07/2023
With Dugswell2. See his log for details. First ascent of this hill for me.KevPalmer30/06/2023
A wet, wet, wet revisit with Kevin P. Parked at the car park near Tom Croft Hill then obvious route to the ridge keeping the woodland to your left. Then keep to the north of the wall after the 1st of 3 stile gates before a wooden stile gives you access to the trig to the south of the wall & fence.Dugswell230/06/2023
From car park on A684 to the NW. Easy but rather boggy ascent on paths following the wall.govanah25/04/2023
Perfectly frozen, sunny winter walk from the A684 car park, first following a snow trodden wall-side path/ATV track to Knoutberry Haw and Baugh Fell, then back to the camper for tea and toast before tackling the south side of Garsdale: another ATV track and snow trodden wall-side path to Aye Gill Pike. Around 5 hrs total. Will be much boggier in milder conditions.summitter14/12/2022
As ADT. Wet underfoot in a lot of places.iangalbraith01/11/2022
From woods on Coal Road above Dent Station. Out and back route, breezy with showers.Jim T26/10/2022
With Gragareth. Nice loop from potholed car park.davechaffey26/08/2022
With Sue and NB from potholed car park via ATV tracks. Return same way.Frank05/07/2022
From Dent; along Dales High Way onto ridge, turned right and followed the wall to the summit. Pleasantly dry underfootRockdoctor25/06/2022
Same route from Tom Croft Hill car park. A remarkably even gradient for the 2.5+ miles of ascent.Nick Down127/04/2022
From Dent Station via Cowgill. Fallen tree on Snaizwold Fell caused a few problems, but climbed walls to circumvent it on return journey.peter4lc11/02/2022
Dent, across river and followed paths NW across fields to join Dales High Way at SD696891. Followed this to gate at SD694898 and then headed east along wall all the way to the top over a very icy stone stile! Returned same way to SD693895 before heading west on path for 300 meters and then across pathless country to Helms Knott. Returned to Dales High Way and followed it back down and along the river to Dent.Flatfield21/11/2021
Solo from the potholed viewpoint/parking off the A684 (SD 69418 91236). Walked to cattle grid, then followed grassy track by wall to summit. Initially with wall to L, then R after crossing a wall stile at SD 70958 89232. Two more wall stiles to summit, then a step stile at top to access trig pt. Easy navigating, easy underfoot, a good one.ADT12/09/2021
From car park to top. Cloudy. Straightforward.PhilipChaston29/08/2021
From the carpark at NW. Straight over the road, up then via left to pick up the light vehicle track following the wall. A few gates on wall tops to negotiate. Very straight forward. Great views especially of Howgills on way back down. With Tiarnan.Pete West14/08/2021
From carpark in NW, with Dad.Tiarnán14/08/2021
From Tom Croft Hill car park.Sedge01/08/2021
From car park to NW, went straight uphill to join fence and followed tracks al the way to top and trig. Great views all round on a clear day.PeterD01/07/2021
Steep direct path from South.Nick Canute08/06/2021
Followed the steps of others from large car park to north west(which must have the most and the deepest potholes of any car park in the country) on glorious spring day.Clear but often boggy path to the ridge,then a saunter along firmer path. Incidentally, do not make my mistake and cross the bwf too early Wait until the stile by the trig.catman30/03/2021
Easy route from West in Dentdaleconanharrod26/03/2021
Parked in the very large view point car park on the A684 at grid 69433 91249. Walked east along the road a little to reach the path going south first before bearing south east to reach the trig. Five miles in Two hours.WAYNE ROWLETT19/09/2020
A windy and overcast day but fine views in all directions. We went early as rain was forecast after lunch. Easy walk up although the ground is already very saturated and it's only September. I think it'll be a moist hill this winter!!morgs4mountains11/09/2020
Clockwise on my own from Dent.Phreerunner20/07/2020
First walk for a long period of time. Parked at the view point/car park (pt 204) on the A684 and walked up the road towards the cattle grid. Broke off to the right before the grid and climbed up until I meet the path, an old ATV track. Followed this southwardish and parallel to a wall on the left(eventually a forest on the left for a while) until it met a cross wall running east/west. turned left and followed this wall on the north side crossing three other cross walls using very good styles. From the last style to the top was a short distance. Top is obvious, a trig point. reached by another style. Brilliant views of the Howgills. Return to the car park by the way up.Walk was dry. In the wet I could see it being a bit of a slog.MikeM29/05/2020
From Dent village. Followed Dales Highway to ridge at SD 695 898. Then east up along the rather wet track adjacent to the wall to the trig at the summit. Returned by the same route. 14km with 500m ascent in 3h20m there and back. (S)silveracorn_alan08/03/2020
From NW, large car park at Pt 204, short distance east along road to cattle grid where there may be limited parking. ATV track roughly follows course of stone wall on SW side then continues south of a spruce plantation up past 400m, then faint path and stone wall stile gates to summit. Ideal conditions, sunny afternoon, light wind and hard frosted ground.Topographer5701/12/2019
Circular run from Dent up the Dales High Way past Lunds then along the wall line to the top.Then down over Rise Hill, Black Hill before dropping down into Cowgill and back along the Dales Way to Dent.Fellhugger10/11/2019
Circular run from Dent up the Dales High Way past Lunds then along the wall line to the top.Then down over Rise Hill, Black Hill before dropping down into Cowgill and back along the Dales Way to Dent. With Fellhugger on a beautiful day!cackleberry10/11/2019
With Val. From Dent. Road walk to near Barth Bridge then Dales High Way to ridge. Followed a path on the north side of a wall to the summit. A bit wet in places. Returned same route. Good weather.mike.hoult10/09/2019
With MikeVal Deisler10/09/2019
Up and back from viewpoint car park NW. Soggy going in parts. Path alongside ridge wall better than the sort-of path by the wall on the way up.squeegs28/07/2019
Purgatorial grind up semi-liquid ATV track beside forestry in 30mph wind. Some sunshine on return route. Rounsfell03/06/2019
On LDWA Group walk, along the Dentdale route and up to the summit and along the ridge. Nice hill well worth walking the whole ridge.nickywood128/04/2019
A fine walk from the car park to the NW with friends we were spending the week with. Not the most interesting hill I must admit. Good paths and step type stiles all the way up.Father Ted18/04/2019
From car park on A684. Misty on top.Longwojo21/03/2019
From campsite in Dent via High Hall farm.NormanW23/02/2019
From the large, pot-holed car park (SD 6945 9124). Easy 4k walk up, following the wall, on a good track.jonglew14/02/2019
5 mile walk out-and-back from near viewpoint NW, took footpath south then followed wall by the forest (the trail here being pretty non-existent) until it joined the ridge wall, followed the path on the north side of the ridge wall to summit. Great views for a hill of its size surrounded by mountains, lovely day, not a cloud in the sky with nice breeze made walking very easy.DanTrig01/07/2018
Walked from Dent station. Direct route across Access land looked very rough, so I walked down the road to Cowgill then up the track to near the forest then followed the ridge all the way to the top and returned the same way.IanHHill28/04/2018
Aye Gill Pike from GR: SD 69427 91221ronaldo33324/02/2018
From the viewpoint to the NW on A84. Very wet and boggy for large sections though well defined track and stiles where needed.mart079726/01/2018
The ascent of Aye Gill Pike from Barth Bridge, in thick snow. 11km with 430m ascent in 3h30m. (S)silveracorn_alan20/01/2018
From huge, cratered carpark to NW. Dull boggy plod, enlivened by pleasant autumn sunshine and decent views.agentmancuso18/10/2017
With K. From 697 911 following ridge. Route has ATV track and pedestrian stiles. A dull round lump.Ashley10/10/2017
Circular from Ewegales campsite (pleasant but basic) east to west, returning via Dent. Good views of the Lakes and Morecambe Bay. Wetter underfoot on the eastern side.reaper17/04/2017
Day trip from Kings Cross to Dent station. Long walk to Barth and then to top adding Helm's Knott on the way. Continued over top along summit ridge and back to station. Aye Gill Pike is a big bulk of a hilltrimarc212/04/2017
From the big car park on A684.lenman08/04/2017
A direct ascent and descent along boggy rough grass from the car park to the north west ( for Sedgewick geology trail- Dent Fault) . Low cloud obscured views, but larks sang. Trig on top. mainly followed the walls which have helpful stiles within them .Denise 13/03/2017