Slight Side
762m (2501ft)
The Southern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10ml (16km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,428ft (1,045m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Eskdale - Wha House Farm - Hare Crag - Quagrigg Moss - Slight Side - Sca Fell - Symonds Knott - Foxes Tarn - Cam Spout Crag - River Esk - Great Moss - Lingcove Bridge - Brotherilkeld - Hardknott Pass - Eskdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10ml (16km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,401ft (1,037m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Eskdale - Wha House Farm - Hare Crag - Goat Crag - Dawsonground Crags - Cat Crag - Quagrigg Moss - Slight Side - Sca Fell - Symonds Knott - Hard Rigg - Burnmoor Tarn - Eel Tarn - Christcliff - Wha House Farm - Eskdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11ml (17.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 5,409ft (1,648m) |
| Time: | 9½ hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Wasdale Head - (National Trust Campsite) - Wast Water - Lingmell - Corridor Route - Great End - Ill Crag - Broad Crag - Scafell Pike - Mickledore - Foxes Tarn - Symonds Knott - Sca Fell - Slight Side - Broad Tongue - Hardrigg Gill - Wasdale Head - Wast Water.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.75ml (22km) |
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| Ascent: | 4,982ft (1,519m) |
| Time: | 10 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Very Hard) |
Route Summary:
Eskdale - Wha House Farm - Hare Crag - Quagrigg Moss - Slight Side - Sca Fell - Symonds Knott - Scafell Pike - Broad Crag - Ill Crag - Great End - Esk Hause - Lingcove Bridge - Great Moss - Eskdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 14ml (22.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 6,009ft (1,832m) |
| Time: | 9 hrs |
| Grade: | (Very Hard) |
Route Summary:
Eskdale - Wha House Farm - Hare Crag - Quagrigg Moss - Slight Side - Sca Fell - Symonds Knott - Mickledore - Scafell Pike - Broad Crag - Ill Crag - Great End - Esk Hause - Esk Pike - Ore Gap - Bow Fell (Bowfell) (North Top) - Bow Fell (Bowfell) - Bowfell Buttress - Cambridge Crag - Flat Crag - Climbers' Traverse (optional) - Three Tarns - Great Moss - Brotherikeld - Eskdale
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Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Slight Side
Pete George walked up Slight Side on July 26th, 2025 [from/via/route] Eskdale [with] Roco [weather] Wet underfoot, foggy on tops
James Hughes climbed it on May 1st, 2025 [from/via/route] c175 Slight Side & Sca Fell from Eskdale [weather] Glorious sunny day. Warm & clear. - Decided to derive from original plan. Amazing walk from Woolpack Inn to Cam Spout via Sampson Stones. Some effort to locate path to left of Cam Spout, but was obvious once located. Fun climb up Gully to Foxes Tarn & then up scree to Symonds Knott. Return from summit via Slight Side. Multiple wanders from path to Catcove then over to Stony Tarn & Eel Tarn. Boggy AF & not overly enjoyable. Return to Woolpack Inn. Jarl & tasty Mutton curry.
Caroline Winter bagged it on October 7th, 2024 [from/via/route] Eskdale YHA, Wha house footpath, Goat crag, Cats Cove, Horn crag, Slightside [with] Graham [weather] Predicted heavy rain with VG views but turned out to be drizzle most of the day with strong winds & gusts. - Intended a rest day but fellow youth hosteller was to bag this Wainwright so Joined him, as my plan was to do tomorrrow with better weather. Others from YHA had struggled, coming off the route & we did the same, needing to get back on cause a few times & found ourselves hacking through bracken on way back. Winds ferocious on top, meaning we needed to cling to the roach face on the scramble up. Some aborted walk over to Scafell Pike & like us another had been knocked to the ground a few times passing over Scafell.
Ian Ashton hiked Slight Side on July 28th, 2024 [with] Solo - Ì
Christine Shepherd summited on May 10th, 2009 [from/via/route] I climbed this from Eskdale using walk c175 Climbed again 19.07.2021 from Wasdale Head after climbing Scafell via Lord's Rake. Made my third ascent on 9.5.24 just a lovely up & down from Wha House farm in perfect weather. [with] On my own [weather] Bright & clear - This was the last of the highest 100 Wainwrights which was my target before deciding to climb them all.
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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Slight Side
The Scafell Massif - Slight Side, Sca Fell, Symonds Knott, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag and Great End from Crinkle Crags (Long Top)
The Scafell Massif - Slight Side, Sca Fell, Symonds Knott, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag and Great End - from the summit of Little Stand
The Scafell Massif - Slight Side, Sca Fell, Symonds Knott, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag and Great End - from the summit cairn on Crinkle Crags (South Top)
Slight Side and Sca Fell, Mickledore, Scafell Pike, Ill Crag, Great End and Esk Hause from Lingcove Bridge
Little Stand (foreground), Pike of Blisco (Pike o' Blisco) (left), Wetherlam and The Old Man of Coniston (right) from Slight Side
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