Date: Thursday 16th October 2025
Company: Myself and Ann-Marie
Distance: 8.8km, Ascent: 516m
Time: 3Hrs
Due to there being limited parking at the top of the Wrynose Pass, we skipped hotel breakfast this morning
, to
arrive there before sunrise.We set off walking fifteen minutes before sunrise.
Route:
At the start of the track there is a waymarker post indicating, 'Wet Side Edge 3/4 mile'.
Waymarker at start of track:
After negotiating some stepping stones to cross a short section of boggy ground, we commenced the ascent via pitched steps.
Ascent from the top of Wrynose Pass:
The excellent path allowed for fast progress up to Wet Side Edge. There was no hanging around today
.Looking back to car at the top of Wrynose Pass:
On gaining the wide Wet Side Edge ridge, we continued to follow the path and numerous waymarker cairns towards Great Carrs and Swirl How.
On Wet Side Edge:
Unfortunately, unlike our two previous walks this week, we did not manage to break through the cloud into sunshine with cloud inversion. Instead we would be walking in cloud with no views
.Approaching Little Carrs:
En-route to Great Carrs we ascended Little Carrs.
Summit of Little Carrs:
A short distance beyond Little Carrs, we reached our first Wainwright of the day, Great Carrs.
Summit of Great Carrs:
On descending from Great Carrs, we passed a memorial cairn and wreckage from a Halifax Bomber LL505 FD-S which crashed on 22 October 1944 killing all eight crew on board.
Wreckage from Halifax Bomber:
From the memorial cairn we continued round the rim of the coire (Top of Broad Slack) to reach the summit Swirl How.
Summit of Swirl How:
From the summit of Swirl How, we returned to the memorial cairn and then undertook and out and back to Grey Friar.
Heading out to Grey Friar:
The summit of Grey Friar has two cairns. According to the Database of British Hills, the SE cairn is the Wainwright. Regardless, we visited both cairns.
At the summit of Grey Friar:
Second cairn atop Grey Friar:
After returning to the col, we took a path skirting round Great Carrs and Little Carrs to again reach Wet Side Edge.
Herdwicks:
We then returned to the car as per our inbound route.
Looking across to Pike of Blisco during return walk:
This walk was shorter and easier than expected allowing us to spend the afternoon at RSPB Leighton Moss.
20 Wainwrights remaining!