Walk Clints Crags from Blindcrake

Easy walk to good views

This 4 mile, Grade 2 (Easy), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Blindcrake in the Lake District & will take you about 2 hrs to complete.

 

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Vital Statistics:

Walk No.: c361
Length: 4 miles (6.5km)
Ascent: 433 ft (132m)
Time: 2 hours
Grade: Walk Grade 2 (Easy) Icon

Route outline for this walk:

Blindcrake  -  Clints Park  -  Clints Crags  -  Salkeld Close  -  Salkeldclose Crags  -  Thackray Wood  -  Willie White's Well  -  Ullerance Gill  -  Isle Park  -  Blindcrake


Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

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Wainwrights
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Nuttalls
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Deweys
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Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Clints Crags at 245m (804ft). Clints Crags is also known as an Wainwright Outlying Fell (No. 93) The summit of Clints Crags is marked by a tiny cairn on a grassy hump.

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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk Clints Crags from Blindcrake

In no particular order . . .

Approaching Thackray Wood with the Skiddaw massif in the distance

Approaching Thackray Wood with the Skiddaw massif in the distance

Photo: Mark Davidson (134)

Heading up to Clints Crags

Heading up to Clints Crags

Photo: Mark Davidson (128)

Willie White's Well - a natural spring

Willie White's Well - a natural spring

Photo: Mark Davidson (137)

Clints Crags summit

Clints Crags summit

Photo: Mark Davidson (133)

The Skiddaw massif from Thackray Wood

The Skiddaw massif from Thackray Wood

Photo: Mark Davidson (136)

Dilapidated fence below the true summit of Clints Crags

Dilapidated fence below the true summit of Clints Crags

Photo: Mark Davidson (130)

The former summit of Clints Crags

The former summit of Clints Crags

Photo: Mark Davidson (129)

The tiny cairn on the true summit of Clints Crags

The tiny cairn on the true summit of Clints Crags

Photo: Mark Davidson (131)

The Skiddaw Massif from the path up Clints Crags

The Skiddaw Massif from the path up Clints Crags

Photo: Christine Shepherd (591)

The tiny cairn on the top of Clints Crags

The tiny cairn on the top of Clints Crags

Photo: Christine Shepherd (595)


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