Wainwright 210 – Book 6 ‘The North Western Fells’
Height: 1,160ft – 354m
Grid reference: NY 167 182
Walks including Rannerdale Knotts:
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Rannerdale Knotts from Low Fell.
Left to right: lower slopes of Robinson leading onto High Snockrigg then down onto Rannerdale Knotts, jutting out into Crummock Water. In front of High Snockrigg you have the lower end of Whiteless Pike known as Whiteless Breast and in front of that you have the lower slopes of Grasmoor with Lanthwaite Wood at the bottom left hand of the photograph. The grey fell behind High Snockrigg (on the left) is Comb Head then after the dip it’s Glaramara. The darker fell in front is Fleetwith Pike then Brandreth; the triangular summit is Green Gable then Great Gable (with its more rounded summit. Then Broad Crag and Kirk Fell. High Crag on the right with its slopes going down to Buttermere (lake) followed by High Stile and the lower slopes of Red Pike. Finally, Haystacks is the fell to the right if centre directly in front of Great Gable. Photograph taken from Low Fell.
Panorama with Rannerdale Knotts in the centre (left to right: Whiteside; Grasmoor; Whiteless Pike; Robinson: Fleetwith Pike; Rannerdale Knotts in front; on the opposite side of Crummock Water – High Crags; High Stile; Red Pike with Mellbreak in the foreground). (Panorama taken from Richards, M. ‘Lakeland Fellranger – The Western Fells’ Cicerone 2011)
(Panorama taken from Richards, M. ‘Lakeland Fellranger – The Western Fells’ Cicerone 2011)
Rannerdale Knotts – photo taken from Robinson, (with Whiteless Pike on the right). Beyond Rannerdale Knotts is Crummock Water with Loweswater in the distance. Mellbreak is opposite Rannderdale Knotts with Hen Comb behind Mellbreak on the left.
Rannerdale Knotts just right of centre (taken from Robinson).
