Black Crag, Pillar

Overview
Height: 2,718 Feet - 828 Metres
Grid Ref: NY 165 116
Area: Western
Group: W/PIL
Ordnance Survey: OL6
 

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Walks including are Black Crag Pillar :-

The Mosedale Horseshoe

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8th August 2022
ASCENT: 3,753 Feet - 1,144 Metres
MILES: 8
WAINWRIGHTS: 3, Pillar - Scoat Fell - Red Pike (Wasdale)
ROUTE: Wasdale Head - Mosedale - Gatherstone Beck - Gatherstone Head - Top of Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - High Level Traverse - Robinson's Cairn - Hind Cove - Pillar Cove - Shamrock Traverse - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Red Pike (Wasdale) - Dore Head - Dorehead Screes - Mosedale - Mosedale Beck - Wasdale Head
 

The Ennerdale Horseshoe

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3rd June 2019
ASCENT: 7,700 Feet - 2,348 Metres
MILES: 24
WAINWRIGHTS: 14, Great Borne - Starling Dodd - Red Pike (Buttermere) - High Stile - High Crag - Haystacks - Brandreth - Green Gable - Kirk Fell - Pillar - Scoat Fell - Haycock - Caw Fell - Crag Fell
ROUTE: Bleach Green - Ennerdale Water - Bowness - Herdus - Great Borne - Starling Dodd - Red Pike (Buttermere) - High Stile - High Crag - Gamlin End - Seat - Top of Scarth Gap - Haystacks - Innominate Tarn - Moses trod - Brandreth - Gillercomb Head - Green Gable - Windy Gap - Beck Head - Kirk Fell North Top - Kirk Fell - Baysour Slack - Top of Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Scoat Fell - Haycock - Caw Fell - Iron Crag - Crag Fell - Ben Gill - Crag Fell Farm - Bleach Green
 

Walking the Birketts, Mosedale Horseshoe

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5th September 2018
ASCENT: 3,430 Feet - 1,046 Metres
MILES: 8.1
BIRKETTS: 6, Looking Stead - Pillar - Black Crag - Scoat Fell - Steeple - Red Pike
ROUTE: Wasdale Head - Mosedale - Gatherstone Beck - Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Scoat Fell - Steeple - Red Pike - Dore Head - Dorehead Screes - Mosedale - Wasdale Head
 

Walking the Wainwrights in 30 Walks - Walk 30 Nine fells west of Wast Water

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10th September 2016
ASCENT: 5,126 Feet - 1,563 Meters
MILES: 13.3
WAINWRIGHTS: 9, Buckbarrow - Seatallan - Middle Fell - Haycock - Scoat Fell - Steeple - Pillar - Red Pike - Yewbarrow
ROUTE: Harrow Head - Gill Beck - Buckbarrow - Glade How - Seatallan - Middle Fell - Winscale Hows - Pots of Ashness - Haycock - Scoat Fell - Steeple - Black Crag - Windy Gap - Pillar - Windy Gap - Black Crag - Red Pike - Dore Head - Stirrup Crag - Yewbarrow - Bell Rib - Overbeck Bridge
 

The Harry Griffin 2,000 footers Walk 22 -The Mosedale Horseshoe

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8th August 2015
ASCENT: 4,922 Feet - 1,501 Meters
MILES: 10.8
SUMMITS OVER 2'000Ft: 11, Looking Stead - Pillar - Black Crag - Little Scoat Fell - Scoat Fell (NY 158 114) - Steeple - Scoat Fell (Summit) - Little Gowder Crag - Red Pike (Wasdale) Stirrup Crags - Yewbarrow
ROUTE: Wasdale Head - Mosedale - Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Scoat Fell - Steeple - Little Gowder Crag - Red Pike - Dore Head - Stirrup Crags - Yewbarrow - Bob Graham Relay Descent off Yewbarrow - Road Back to Wasdale Head
 

Pillar via Pillar Cove


4th August 2014
ASCENT: 3,865 Feet – 1,178 Meters
MILES: 16.2
WAINWRIGHTS: 5, Pillar – Scoat Fell – Steeple – Haycock – Caw Fell
ROUTE:

Bleach Green – Bowness – Low Gillerthwaite – High Gillerthwaite – Ennerdale Forest – Pillar Cove – Robinson’s Cairn – High Level Route – Shamrock Traverse – Pillar – Wind Gap – Black Crag (Pillar) – Scoat Fell – Steeple – Haycock – Little Gowder Crag – Caw Fell – Iron Crag – Boathow Crag – Anglers Crag – Bleach Green

 

A Mosedale Round – Pillar to Red Pike


30th January 2014
ASCENT: 4,011 Feet – 1,223 Meters
MILES: 9.6
WAINWRIGHTS: 4, Pillar – Scoat Fell – Steeple – Red Pike (Wasdale)
ROUTE: Wasdale Head – Mosedale – Black Sail Pass – Looking Stead – Pillar – Wind Gap – Black Crag – Scoat Fell – Steeple – Red Pike (Wasdale) – Dore Head – Overbeck – Yewbarrow South Ridge – Down in the Dale – Wasdale Head
 

Pillar from Bowness Knott

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30th April 2012
ASCENT: 3,288 Feet, 1,002 Metres
MILES: 11.7
WAINWRIGHTS: 4, Haycock, Scoat Fell, Steeple & Pillar
ROUTE: Bowness Knott – Ennerdale Water – Irish Bridge – Woundell Beck –Caw Fell North Ridge – Haycock – Scoat Fell – Pillar - Black Crag – Wind Gap – Pillar – White Pike – Ennerdale Plantations – Homestead – Moss Dub – Irish Bridge Ennnerdale Water – Bowness Knott
 

Mosedale Round, Via The High Level Route

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26th June 2010
ASCENT: 1,554 Mtrs 5,100 Ft
MILES: 10.5
WAINWRIGHTS: 6, Kirk Fell, Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple, Red Pike & Yewbarrow
ROUTE:  
 

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