⛰️ Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle

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

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832 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+13 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Crinkle Crags at 859m (2,818ft) is exactly what its name suggests — a jagged, entertaining ridge of five distinct tops above the head of Great Langdale. Wainwright was enthusiastic about it as a fell of real mountaineering character, and the traverse of the full ridge — including the Bad Step scramble on the second crinkle — is one of the classic expeditions in the Lake District. The views from the crest are superb: Bowfell, the Scafells, the Coniston fells and the sea all visible on a good day. Best approached from the Old Dungeon Ghyll via Red Tarn and the Three Tarns col, combining easily with Bowfell for a full day's circuit.

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.

0.1 km NNECrinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)822 m · Southern
0.3 km NShelter Crags815 m · Southern
0.5 km SCrinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m · Southern
0.9 km SStonesty Pike765 m · Southern
1.3 km SEGreat Knott695 m · Southern
1.5 km NEWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern
1.7 km SLittle Stand740 m · Southern
2.1 km WNWHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern
2.2 km NWPike de Bield810 m · Southern
2.4 km WSWThrostlehow Crag404 m · Southern
2.4 km WScar Lathing439 m · Southern
2.7 km SWYew Bank499 m · Southern
2.7 km NBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (verge) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
High-level start for Pike o' Blisco, Cold Pike, Wet Side Edge and the Greenburn fells.
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Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 4.3 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
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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.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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