⛰️ Buck Pike (Mickleden)

606 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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606 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+11 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Buck Pike at 744m (2,441ft) is a rocky subsidiary summit on the ridge between Dow Crag and Brown Pike, forming part of the fine horseshoe above Goat's Water. Wainwright included it as a separate fell, noting its interesting position on the western side of the Coniston ridge with views down to the Duddon valley. The summit is most naturally reached as part of the traverse from Dow Crag to Brown Pike when descending from the Coniston fells. The views across to Grey Friar and west towards the coast are distinctive from this angle of the ridge.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

0.4 km NEBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern
1.9 km SSEWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern
1.9 km WSWPike de Bield810 m · Southern
1.9 km NWHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern
2.2 km NNWRed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern
2.4 km SShelter Crags815 m · Southern
2.5 km NNWLooking Steads (Glaramara)774 m · Southern
2.6 km SCrinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)822 m · Southern
2.7 km SCrinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle832 m · Southern
2.8 km ESEThorn Crag644 m · Central
3.0 km WIll Crag931 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Buck Pike (Mickleden) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 4.0 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
Directions ↗
Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 4.7 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.
Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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