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Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

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764 mWainwright — Far Eastern Fells+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km Severe in cloud

Stony Cove Pike at 764m (2,506ft), also known as Caudale Moor, is a Wainwright summit in the Far Eastern Fells above the Kirkstone Pass, its broad summit plateau giving extensive views across the eastern fells and towards the Pennines.

Summit conditions on Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 4°C, gusts to 58 mph, 9.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

52 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 42 mph times our exposure factor of 1.24. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 58 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Cloud on the top

Past the line

15 out of 100, the clear-top reading

Averaged over the daylight hours, from the forecast’s humidity and low cloud.

The line Our line: a clear-top reading under 20 out of 100, where our scorer says “summit likely clagged in”. There is no outside threshold to cite; it is our estimate. What cloud does to finding the way: navigating in cloud.

Not an observation: cloud lifts and drops within the hour.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

9.7 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like 0 °C, no ice or snow forecast. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Routes up Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Both start from Hartsop village (donation); the last two rows give its parking and bus. Full maps further down.

ComparedHartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray CragCaudale Moor & St Raven's Edge
Starts fromHartsop villageHartsop village
Distance and climb10 km, 858 m of climb12.96 km, 732 m of climb
Time, fast to steady~3¼–4¾ h~3¾–5¼ h
ScramblingHands for a few steps: a couple of rock steps between Stony Cove Pike and Thornthwaite Crag (km 3.3–5.4).Hands for a few steps: small rock steps on the descent to St Raven's Edge (km 4.0–6.1).
ExposureModerateNot assessed
NavigationModerateHard
Steepest stretchClimb of about 51% at 0.6 km (Severe)Climb of about 50% at 0.7 km (Severe)
After the summitOver Thornthwaite Crag and Gray CragOver Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner and St Raven's Edge
Walked or plannedWalked by Lee, February 2025Planned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the startHartsop village (donation)Hartsop village (donation)
Bus to the start508, 590 m walk from Hartsop, adjacent to road end508, 570 m walk from Hartsop, adjacent to road end

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is Stony Cove Pike hard?

Not to walk on top — it is a broad, boggy summit plateau, and the going up there is easy if wet. The interest is on the way to it. St Raven’s Edge, the rocky little crest above Kirkstone, is the line onto the fell from the pass and involves easy hands-on work in places.

Our round from Hartsop, up Hartsop Dodd and back down over St Raven’s Edge, is 13.0 km with 732 m of ascent, and we grade its navigation hard — because once you are on that plateau there is very little to steer by, and it drops steeply on more than one side.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 764 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
10° / 4°
58 mph
9.7 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
8° / 5°
40 mph
10.9 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
8° / 6°
25 mph
3.2 mm (75%)
Fri 30 Oct
7° / 5°
24 mph
0.9 mm (8%)
Sat 31 Oct
6° / 2°
7 mph
1.2 mm (6%)
Sun 1 Nov
6° / 3°
15 mph
0.3 mm (2%)
Mon 2 Nov
4° / -2°
6 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 20:59 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

Hartsop village (donation) — at the start of Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag and Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge
For Hartsop Dodd, Gray Crag, High Street via Hayeswater, Brock Crags. It asks an optional donation, not a charge (Lee, who walked past it on 14 August 2026). People also use the Cow Bridge car park, 0.9 km away, if they would rather not drive down the lane.
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
If it is full: Cow Bridge, Hartsop (paid) (0.9 km, 32 m up)
Middle Dodd, north-east car park (free) — 1.5 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Middle Dodd (0.7 km), Caudale Moor - John Bell's Banner (1.0 km), Red Screes (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
Middle Dodd (layby) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Middle Dodd (0.6 km), Red Screes (0.9 km), St Raven's Edge (1.0 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
3 more places to park near Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)
Middle Dodd car park (free) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Middle Dodd (0.7 km), Red Screes (0.9 km), St Raven's Edge (0.9 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
A592 south of Windy Corner (car park) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
South of Windy Corner on the Kirkstone Pass side, about 480 m south of the Windy Corner bus stops. The nearest route starts are 'Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells', 2.6 km north on foot at Hartsop, and the two at Cow Bridge, 2.9 km north on foot. Free (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?
Red Pit (LDNPA, free) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)
The National Park's car park on the A592, 0.7 km north of the Kirkstone Pass summit in a straight line, on the Patterdale side. The 'Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge' route passes about 15 m away; it starts at Hartsop village, 4.7 km on foot, the nearest route start. Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions (opens in new tab)Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 508 and 509 stop at Hartsop, adjacent to road end, a 570 m walk and 28 m of ascent from the start of Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness). The last bus is 19:51 towards Windermere (508), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026; that timetable runs to 1 November 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Notes from the Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag route

  • The climb from Threshthwaite Mouth to the beacon is steep, rough and loose in places; take it slowly, especially when wet.

If you need to get off (the leg from Hartsop Dodd): Retrace your steps back over Hartsop Dodd. Do not drop blindly off the steep western or eastern flanks of this connecting ridge.

Quoted from the route page: its warnings and the note for the leg that reaches Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor).

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Read the warnings on the route pages that climb it, check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

Navigating in cloud

Severe

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of near-level ground around the summit. A serious place to be caught in cloud: carry map and compass (or GPS) and know how to use them, or save it for a clear day.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.5 km WCaudale Moor - John Bell's Banner755 m · Far Eastern
2.0 km SWSt Raven's Edge593 m · Far Eastern

Routes over Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Picked for its light in: June, July

Warnings: The plateau link to John Bell's Banner and the descent line are only faintly pathed — broad, featureless ground where navigation needs care in cloud.

Route guide: Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge →

Summits: Hartsop DoddStony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)Thornthwaite CragGray Crag

Download GPX Walked by Lee, February 2025

Warnings: The climb from Threshthwaite Mouth to the beacon is steep, rough and loose in places; take it slowly, especially when wet.

Route guide: Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge route:

toilets (opens in new tab) (64 m off the line) Road End (opens in new tab) (466 m from the start, straight line)

On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.

About Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), a Lake District fell
Photo: William Bartlett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wainwright included it in his Far Eastern Fells guide. It can be climbed from Brothers Water or from Kirkstone Pass, and the summit gives a fine panorama of the Ullswater and Haweswater areas.

Field notes

The day we summited this one was one of the windiest days I, personally can recall in the Lakes. We parked up at Hartsop and it was fine as its sheltered down there. As soon as we got a quarter of the way up Hartsop Dodd the wind really started to pick up. We were at 45 degrees into the wind to stay on our feet. Luckily I had some paintballing goggles in my rucksack and gave them to my son. It was slow going up to the first Wainwright. But as we used the stone wall from around there up to Stony Cove Pike the wind relented a little, but the bogginess didn't. Most people will try and bag Thornthwaite Crag on the same day, and this fell isn't as imposing as that, but after putting in the effort to get up here, its not a bad little fell. If you were bagging Birketts at the same time its worth a detour over to that fell of the same name - its just to the west and only around 8 meters of elevation lost - which is much easier than the traverse over to Thornthwaite Crag as that is a very tricky affair in the wind and rain as its a climb down.

— Lee McCoy, who walked it on our Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag route in February 2025

My Strava hikes over Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

Data from Strava.

Classifications & hill data

Is Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) a Wainwright?

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list, the Marilyn list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

764 m
Height
2,506 ft
In feet
NY 4178 1000
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Other tops of Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

The 360° skyline from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

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Computed 360-degree skyline from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)36 labelled tops shown (11 distant behind the far-horizon toggle). Theoretical visibility in perfect clarity; computed from terrain, not photographed.eye levelNNEESESSWWNWScafell Pike · 20 kmHelvellyn · 9 kmSkiddaw North Top · 25 kmGreat Gable · 21 kmCatstye Cam · 9 kmHigh Crag · 8 kmFairfield · 6 kmBlencathra · 20 kmCrinkle Crags · 18 kmHigh Raise · 5 kmThe Old Man of Coniston · 19 kmSwirl How · 17 kmHarter Fell · 4 kmThe Knott · 3 kmKentmere Pike · 5 kmBowscale Fell · 22 kmCold Pike · 17 kmThornthwaite Crag · 1 kmKidsty Pike · 4 kmIll Bell · 3 kmCaudale Moor · 0 kmFroswick · 2 kmYoke · 4 kmGray Crag · 2 kmRest Dodd · 4 kmPlace Fell · 7 kmWard's Stone · 54 km · clear daysSt Raven's Edge · 2 kmShipman Knotts · 7 kmAngletarn Pikes South Top · 5 kmWild Boar Fell · 36 km · clear daysBeda Fell · 7 kmLittle Mell Fell · 14 kmBaystones · 5 kmWansfell Pike · 6 kmSour Howes · 7 kmGreat End · 19 kmBowfell · 18 kmPillar · 25 kmNethermost Pike · 8 kmRaise · 10 kmDollywaggon Pike · 8 kmGreat Dodd · 13 kmKnowe Crags · 20 kmHigh Raise · 14 kmCarrock Fell · 25 kmCofa Pike · 6 kmGavel Pike · 6 kmRed Screes · 2 kmBirkhouse Moor · 8 kmLoadpot Hill · 9 kmIngleborough · 48 km · clear daysGoat Scar · 6 kmHigh Dodd · 8 kmCalf Top · 35 km · clear daysWhite Hall Knott · 36 km · clear daysCapple Howe · 7 kmBlake Rigg · 15 kmRound How · 11 kmFair Snape Fell · 65 km · clear daysTop o' Selside · 21 kmBlack Fell · 11 kmGummer's How · 22 kmnameless · 13 kmLatterbarrow · 12 kmWhite Hill · 57 km · clear daysOrrest Head · 11 kmBigland Barrow · 27 kmSnowdon · 175 km · a handful of days a yearBroad Law · 117 km · a rare clear dayArenig Fawr · 183 km · a handful of days a yearPendle Hill · 79 km · a rare clear dayMoel y Gamelin · 165 km · a handful of days a yearSighty Crag · 73 km · a rare clear dayWisp Hill · 89 km · a rare clear dayRoan Fell · 83 km · a rare clear dayDun Rig · 123 km · a handful of days a yearBlackwood Hill · 87 km · a rare clear dayBillinge Hill · 109 km · a rare clear day
The skyline as a list, by direction
  • North-east: Rampsgill Head (4 km), High Raise (5 km)
  • South-west: Swirl How (17 km), Brim Fell (19 km), The Old Man of Coniston (19 km)
  • West: Hart Crag (5 km), Fairfield (6 km), Shelter Crags (17 km), Crinkle Crags (18 km), Crinkle Crags (18 km), Crinkle Crags (18 km), Crinkle Crags South Top (18 km), Bowfell (18 km), Crinkle Crags (18 km), Great End (19 km), Ill Crag (20 km), Broad Crag (20 km), Green Gable (20 km), Scafell Pike (20 km), Great Gable (21 km), Scafell (21 km), Pillar (25 km), Black Crag (25 km), Scoat Fell (26 km)
  • North-west: St Sunday Crag (6 km), Dollywaggon Pike (8 km), High Crag (8 km), Nethermost Pike (8 km), Helvellyn (9 km), Catstye Cam (9 km), Raise (10 km), Green Side (11 km), Stybarrow Dodd (12 km), Great Dodd (13 km), Gategill Fell Top (20 km), Knowe Crags (20 km), Blencathra (20 km), Atkinson Pike (20 km), Skiddaw North Top (25 km), Broad End (25 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Snowdon (175 km, Wales), Carnedd Llewelyn (163 km, Wales), Broad Law (117 km, Scotland), Moel Siabod (171 km, Wales), Arenig Fawr (183 km, Wales), Yr Eifl (196 km, Wales), Craig Cwm Silyn (183 km, Wales), Pendle Hill (79 km, England).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (on 1 May) first light is only 12 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

0°30°40°50°60°04:36
Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.
Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
First lightAlmanac sunriseDifference
Midsummer04:36 BST ±5.0 min04:36—
Equinox06:18 GMT ±5.0 min06:15+3 min
Midwinter08:30 GMT ±5.0 min08:32-2 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.28°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

The evening here runs close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its earliest evening of the modelled year (on 1 August) last light is only 7 minutes before almanac sunset, so the published sunset time is a fair guide on Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor).

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
Last lightAlmanac sunsetDifference
Midsummer21:46 BST ±5.0 min21:52-6 min
Equinox18:24 GMT ±5.0 min18:26-2 min
Midwinter15:51 GMT ±5.0 min15:48+3 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.
59Wainwrights in view+28 marginal
175 kmFurthest sightlineSnowdon (Yr Wyddfa) · possible under favourable refraction
2Sea in viewIrish Sea, Morecambe Bay

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Wales.

Far horizons
  • Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) WalesSSW · 175 km clear
  • Carnedd Llewelyn WalesSSW · 160 km clear
  • Irish Sea open waterSW · 67 km in view
  • Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 49 km clear
  • Whernside Yorkshire DalesSE · 42 km clear
  • Great Dun Fell North PenninesNE · 37 km clear
  • Morecambe Bay bay/estuarySSW · 37 km in view
All 59 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

How the view from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor). Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

We have not stayed at any of them. We take no bookings or affiliate fees. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

Frequently asked questions about Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)

Is Stony Cove Pike hard? Answered above.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

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