St Sunday Crag
841m (2760ft)
St Sunday Crag is in The Eastern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England
You can walk to the top of St Sunday Crag by using any of these 4 route maps:
Walk c235 The Deepdale Horseshoe from Patterdale
Quieter alternative to crowded Helvellyn
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75ml (15.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,516ft (1,072m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Arnison Crag - Birks - St Sunday Crag - Deepdale Hause - Cofa Pike - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Bridgend - Patterdale
Walk c181 Dollywaggon Pike and Seat Sandal from Patterdale
Great high level route with an easy scramble
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10ml (16km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,979ft (1,213m) |
| Time: | 7½ hrs |
| Grade: | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Ruthwaite Lodge - The Tongue - Dollywaggon Pike - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - Deepdale Hause - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Patterdale
Walk c269 The Grisedale Horseshoe from Patterdale
Lakeland's most climbed mountain - not for the faint hearted
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.5ml (18.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 4,582ft (1,396m) |
| Time: | 8.75hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Brownends Plantation - Hole-in-the-Wall - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Grisedale Tarn - Deepdale Hause - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Patterdale
Walk c264 The Grisedale Round from Patterdale
Superb high level ridge walk
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.25ml (21km) |
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| Ascent: | 5,189ft (1,581m) |
| Time: | 10 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Very Hard) |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Brownend Plantation - Hole-in-the-Wall - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Arnison Crag - Patterdale
Interactive Walking Maps
See St Sunday Crag and the surrounding tops on our unique, downloadable, PDF Peak Bagging Maps:
NB: Whether you print off a copy or download it to your phone, these PDF Peak Baggers' Maps might prove incredibly useful when your are up there on the tops and you cannot get a phone signal.
*This version is marked with the walk routes you need to follow to Walk all 214 Wainwrights in just 59 walks.
See St Sunday Crag and the surrounding tops on our free-to-access 'Google Style' Peak Bagging Maps:
The Eastern Fells of The Lake District National Park
Less data - quicker to download
The Whole of The Lake District National Park
More data - might take a little longer to download
You can find St Sunday Crag & all the walks that climb it on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps:
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (orange/yellow covers):
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (pink/magenta covers):
Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, scaled, summited, hiked & bagged St Sunday Crag
Kate Peacock walked up St Sunday Crag on September 21st, 2024 [from/via/route] Patterdale Hotel [with] Me, Mike, Skye and Amber [weather] Some sun, dry, breezy on the tops. Mist came & went several times - Road walking on our return to the car park. Going up to Fairfield was good fun from St Sunday Crag
James Hughes climbed it on June 11th, 2024 [from/via/route] Deepdale Horseshoe c235 - From Patterdale [weather] Clear - Post walk pint in Queens Head Troutbeck
Chris Mcmanus bagged it on July 30th, 2024 [from/via/route] Circular route Hartsopp above How Hart Crag Fairfield St Sunday Birks Arnison [with] Joanne & Julie [weather] Sunny
John Ramsbottom hiked St Sunday Crag on July 27th, 2024 [from/via/route] Patterdale [with] Lola [weather] Hot Sunny - wild camped on St Sunday Crag, finish with a pint at Queens Head Tirrel.
Mr M A Blanchard summited on July 31st, 2024 [from/via/route] With all the mutts [with] Florence, Millie and Woodie and Ted [weather] Sunny warm
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Photographs & Pictures of views from, on, or of, St Sunday Crag
Place Fell, Grisedale and the lower slopes of St Sunday Crag (right) from below Hole-in-the-Wall
Looking down Grisdale from Dollywaggon Pike with St Sunday Crag on the right and Ullswater in the distance
The shoulder of St Sunday Crag and Birks (left), Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor (centre) and Sheffield Pike from Arnison Crag, Patterdale
Me on the left, looking towards Ullswater & St Sunday Crag (right) from a very snowy Seat Sandal
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