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7th Aug 2020  14:30  by sheepsocks

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Carpark by road south of Irton Pike. Walked the ridge above Wast water Screes to Illgill Head, then back. 13km of beautiful views across to the higher summits clothed in cloud, and down to Wast Water

16th Nov 2019  08:05  by Triggers

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retrospective log

31st Aug 2018  11:55  by Phil Clayton

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No sign of a bolt on this my last Wainwright top. Walked from Church Stile, Nether Wasdale, over Whin Rigg and Illgill Head returning along screes path. Grand day out!

14th Oct 2015  15:30  by painterman61

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Revisit walked up from mitterdale car park through forest taking in whin rigg first excellent round.looked but couldn't find it again fantastic views today especially down the cliffs to wast water no mist today!

illgill head ©painterman61
whin rigg ©painterman61
wast water ©painterman61

23rd Jun 2015  11:22  by Hartryggers

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Parked in the Old quarry CP by the side of the Eskdale Bridge to Santon Bridge Road NY 121012 > Illgill Head > Whin Rigg (Wasdale) > Irton Fell > Great Bank > Irton Pike > Old quarry CP. Previous visit 14/9/2009

8th Jun 2015  12:11  by Father Ted

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I agree with Jon that this cairn has too many stones in it to easily take apart, especially with lots of people around as there was on this fine day. Also came up from the hostel then descended and back on the road.

24th Nov 2014  00:00  by rupertal

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9th Sep 2013  11:56  by jonglew

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Walked up from the Wasdale Hall YHA taking in Whin Rigg first and also couple of Birketts. The bolt is supposed to be under the cairn at 604m 'summit', which is not the true summit of the hill, but the summit Wainwright considered the better peak, and presumably the OS reconnaissance team also thought. The cairn is too large to easily dismantle (unlike that on Iron Crag which I did a couple of days later).

10th Feb 2013  08:48  by PeterKirkwood

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21st Oct 2012  15:01  by peregrinus

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Should be on this knoll My GPSr put the bolt not at the cairn but the grassy knoll 30m due W, near the brink. Couldn't find it though - buried if still present.

22nd Sep 2012  19:49  by stignest

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another overnighter at the end of another long way. having decamped from red pike and returned to was head via yewbarrow id then found myself up here via lords rake, Scafell, Slight Side and illgill head. Having found no bolt, rivet etc I moved on to Whin Rigg for the night.

14th Jun 2012  15:20  by asbown

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lovely walk from nether wasdale, no sign of the bolt.

1st Nov 2010  13:15  by Morecambe Monkey

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According to Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells book(1994)"The trig point & cairn lie just beyond(the 609m high point)nearer the rim of the screes". There is a large cairn at this point but no sign of the trig point. Whether it is a bolt or rivet which over the years has been covered by the very wide cairn would just be a guess & i wasn't about to start dismantling it to find out!

23rd Apr 2010  12:01  by painterman61

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Very misty up here today no views,just a big cairn.

Cairn ©painterman61
You lost as well ©painterman61

1st Oct 2008  14:18  by theblack

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Great views over Wasdale. No Trig though.

22nd Aug 2008  12:00  by chrisbombington

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22 Aug 2008 Illgill Head & Whin Rigg great views but no Trig

View from Illgill Head

11th Feb 2008  09:30  by gemini man

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Visited whilst on a Wainwright trip around Wast Water.

9th Sep 2007  16:30  by Ivanhoe

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Trig point marked on OS Outdoor Leisure map No.6 at 603m, but no sign of it on ground (although up in the fell mist with poor visibility).

23rd Aug 2004  10:47  by PeteBoggs

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Large cairn no trig

7th Jun 2004  00:00  by Bramley

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4th Oct 2003  12:09  by jedmac

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No sign of bolt. Nice views made climb worthwhile

Illgill Head

1st Aug 2001  08:45  by sleepwalker

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Walked the full ridge taking in Whin Rigg and Ilgill Head. No trace of the pillar marked on the map - I later learned that this in fact just a bolt. Great to be out on the fells again after the F&M outbreak, I've missed them!

12th Apr 1982  11:30  by arranc

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my 200th fell. no sign of trig