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Ard Crags & Knott Rigg Evening Walk

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Looking down the north ridge of the Ard Crags

On the ridge between the Ard Crags and Knott Rigg

Ard Crags & Knott Rigg Evening Walk

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A short steep climb is rewarded with a wonderful lower level ridge walk in the heart of the Newlands Valley

Distance: 10km / 6 miles

Ascent: 700m / 2300ft

Duration: 4-5 hours

Maximum Group Ratio: 10:1

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“Interest in the climb quickens at the foot of Aiken Knott. Bracken is succeeded by heather, through which a neat and charming track winds up the narrow ridge to the east top”

A Wainwright

A wonderful narrow heathery ridge links the tops of the Ard Crags and Knott Rigg, a delightful quieter walk above the Newlands Valley, a perfect ridge walk in miniature.

Summits included on this route:
Ard Crags581 metres / 1906 feet
Knott Rigg556 metres / 1824 feet

“In fell-climbing (as in other pursuits) there is a difference between achievement and satisfaction. One's sense of achievement is roughly in proportion to altitude gained by effort, but one's sense of satisfaction is not necessarily governed by the same rule. Lonely Ard Crags offers, especially in August, a climb up to a personal heaven of one's very own”

A Wainwright

After meeting at the small car park at Rigg Beck in the Newlands Valley we will follow the path alongside the beck for a short while until an easy route across the beck and up onto the ridge beyond is reached, once on the ridge the bracken covered slopes soon make way to a wonderful heathery ridge as we climb up over Aiken Knott.

Soon the gradient eases as we approach the summit of the Ard Crags, from here on the ridge is a wonderful easy walk, often much quieter than it's more famous neighbours, we cross the north top of Ard Crags before reaching the true summit.

The views over the Newlands Valley are wonderful, from Catbells to Robinson we have a great perspective on the Newlands Horseshoe and to the west the Causey Pike and Scar Crags ridge towers above us.

As we follow the ridge south the fells above Buttermere open up in front of us giving us a good panorama of the Buttermere Fells ridge as we reach our final summit, Knott Rigg.

From the top of Knott Rigg our descent is by the eastern ridge, above Ill Gill dropping down to Keskadale Farm and the roadside below Ill Gill. We now walk back along the lane to Rigg Beck and our start point.

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