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Ard Crags

Overview

Height:	1,906 Feet - 581 Metres
Grid Ref:	NY 207 198
Area:	North Western
Group:	NW/GRA
Ordnance Survey:	OL4
Wainwright Guidebook:	Six
	In fell-climbing (as in other pursuits) there is a difference between achievement and satisfaction. Ones sense of achievement is roughly in proportion to altitude gained by effort, but ones sense of satisfaction is not necessarily governed by the same rule. Lonely Ard Crags offers this.

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Ard Crags

There are 5 walks to choose from including Ard Crags

Walking the Birketts, Knott Rigg to Ard Crags

		25th January 2020
ASCENT:		1,230 375 Feet - Metres
MILES:		3.5
BIRKETTS:		3, Knott Rigg - III Crag - Ard Crags
ROUTE:		Top Of Newlands Pass - Knott Rigg - III Crag - Ard Crags - Return to the Top of Newlands Pass

Ard Crags to Barrow via Rigg Beck

		18th November 2017
ASCENT:		2,980 Feet - 884 Metres
MILES:		8.4
WAINWRIGHTS:		5, Ard Crags - Scar Crags - Causey Pike - Outerside - Barrow
ROUTE:		Newlands Valley - Rigg Beck - Birk Rigg - Ard Crags - Rigg Beck - Scar Crags - Causey Pike - High Moss - Outerside - Low Moss - Stile End - Barrow Door - Barrow - Newlands Valley

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 6 A Newlands Round

		5th March 2016
ASCENT:		5,200 Feet - 1,586 Meters
MILES:		13.6
WAINWRIGHTS:		8, Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy - Dale Head - Hindscarth - Robinson - Knott Rigg - Ard Crags
ROUTE:		Gutherscale - Skellgill Bank - Cat Bells - Hause Gate - Maiden Moor - Narrow Moor - High Spy - Dalehead Tarn - Dale Head - Hindscarth Edge - Hindscarth - LIttledale Edge - Robinson - Buttermere Moss - High Smockrigg - Moss Force - Newlands Pass - Knott Rigg - Ard Crags - Birk Rigg - Newlands Pass - Stair - Skelgill - Gutherscale

The Newlands Hause Fells from Rigg Beck

		31st March 2013
ASCENT:		2,848 Feet 868 Metres
MILES:		7.2
WAINWRIGHTS:		3 Ard Crags – Knott Rigg – Robinson
ROUTE:		Rigg Beck – Aikin Knott – Ard Crags – Knott Rigg – Newlands Hause – High Snockrigg – Buttermere Moss – Robinson – Blea Crags – High Snab Bank – Newlands Church – Rigg Beck

A Morning Walk On Ard Crags & Knott Rigg