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Scout Scar: Short trek from Summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 15 hours ago
A few hundred metres south of Scout Scar leads you to the Wainwright Outlying summit. This is not on the Mountainviews lists. This summit is marked by a peculiar mushroom type structure.

Burney: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 15 hours ago
Parked to the North East and followed grassy track to summit marked with a trig pillar

Scout Scar: Short walk to summit from track

Summit Comment Fergalh 15 hours ago
Parked to the North at small car park on Underbarrow Road and crossed road and than followed track south towards Scout Scar. After a short walk a short trek east of the track leads to scree filled...

Low Pike: Slow tricky section if doing the fairfield horseshoe clockwise

Summit Comment Fergalh 15 hours ago
The ground between High Pike and Low Pike is very rocky and steep. This section of the Fairfield horseshoe is a bit slow if going clockwise. On the day we did it most people were doing the circuit...

High Pike (Scandale): Steep descent from High Pike

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
There is a very steep decent off High Pike towards Low Pike

High Pike (Scandale): Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
From Dove Crag the snow disappeared and the track reappeared to its full extent. Quite a long trek but straightforward and uneventful. The summit is marked by a small cairn

Dove Crag: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
From Hart Crag head southeast along track with a small descent and ascent until you reach the summit marked by a small cairn

Hart Crag: More great views

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
Great of the snowy eastern Fells in the sun here

Hart Crag: Snowy walk along the head of the valley

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
From Fairfield head south east along track. A small descent followed by a short ascent through the snow to the summit marked by a small cairn

Fairfield: High Point of the horseshoe

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
The walk to Fairfield was straight forward along the track from Great Rigg the track eventually widened out to a largely flat area marked by a small cairn. The snow was quite extensive here so our...

Great Rigg: Great view for a great mountain

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
Great Rigg has a great view south of the full ridge with the previous 3 peaks we had climbed

Great Rigg: Continue on track to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 16 hours ago
Follow the track North from Heron Fell North Top keeping the steep cliffs on your right. A small descent is follwoed by a steep ascent to another summit marked by a small cairn
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simon3: Track 2078 in area near Carrick Mountain, Dublin/Wicklow (Ireland)
Exploratory route for Carrick Mtn from the SW
Length: 4.9km, Creator time taken: 2h 5m, Ascent: 181m,
Descent: 176m

Places: Start at T21927 93544, Carrick Mountain, end at Start
Logged as completed by 2

This track was made in search of a quick way up Carrick Mtn, a summit that has caused considerable grief to previous people exploring it.

The immediate area of the summit is a quartzite ridge stretching approximately SW-NE. All around this are untracked trees, often the black barked Lodgepole Pine (Pinus Contorta). To the SW where we attempted to walk on the way up, many of these trees which in that area are Lodgepoles have fallen over, creating very difficult walking. If you look at the air photo layer you can see three types of tree in descending order of walkability, light green: larch, middle green: Sitka Spruce and dark green Lodgepole Pine. Our route exited the summit slightly north and west where the going through the trees was much easier.

Uploaded on: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 (08:44:33)
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