Great Carrs
785m (2576ft)

The Southern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England

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Great Carrs is on Ordnance Survey Maps:

OS Explorer Map OL6

1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers)

OS Landranger Maps 89 & 90

1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers)

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*Version marked with the walk routes you need to follow to Walk all 214 Wainwrights in just 59 walks.

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Your Personal Mountain & Hill Bagging Record

If you LOG ON and then RELOAD this page it will display when you climbed, bagged and conquered Great Carrs, what the weather was like, who you went with and any other comments you might like to add to remind you of that fantastic day. For more details see Your Personal Mountain, Top, Peak and Hill Bagging Record.

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Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Great Carrs

Christina Lander walked up Great Carrs on June 29th, 2019 [from/via/route] Three Shires Stone - Wet Side Edge - Little Carrs - Great Carrs - Grey Friar - Little Carrs - Three Shires Stone [with] Dick & Meg [weather] Warm with sunny spells.

Elaine Evans climbed Great Carrs on February 11th, 2019 [from/via/route] From car park at Low Tilberthwaite, via Tilberthwaite Gill and Dry Cove Bottom, then ascent via Wetherlam Edge, continued to Swirl How via Prison Band then on to Great Carrs before descending along West Side Edge and back to car park. [with] Sue and Christine [weather] Very good weather for walking, dry and clear, good visibility. - Oh dear! Scramble up Wetherlam Edge was a bit tricky, made more difficult due to snow underfoot and unclear route to top.......but we did it! Prison Band looked more challenging than it was - a pleasant surprise after Wetherlam Edge!

David Watson bagged Great Carrs on August 29th, 2018 [from/via/route] Coniston [weather] Sunny

Phillip Bulley hiked Great Carrs on September 4th, 2018 [from/via/route] Via Grey Friars. [with] Ruby. [weather] Sunny

Vic Royle summited Great Carrs on May 26th, 2018 [from/via/route] With Swirl Howe from Irish Cottageville [with] Team Wiggle [weather] T-shirt time until the top - Sick Mink pre peak jitters, Ulverston tapas gin, bank holiday wiggle, bun raid on Greggs was a game of 2 halves. Ulverston ice hunt

John Bryers conquered Great Carrs on May 13th, 2018 [from/via/route] Walna Scar Road [with] Janet Bryers, David, Janine and Freya Gray. With Mya and Jazz [weather] Sunny and warm with a cool breeze on ridges

Caroline Winter scaled Great Carrs on April 11th, 2018 [from/via/route] Wrynose pass, Great Carrs, Grey Friar, Swirl How, Black sails, Wetherlam [with] Becky [weather] Cloud lifted and great views late morning/afternoon, breezy on ascent to Hell Gill Pike - Busy up here. Some off to Coniston from Swirl Hawse, we some how missed plane debris on Great Carrs! Lost time on descent of Prison Band and detour off path to Black Sails. Also, after rocky scramble decent.....ended up on the minor track to the mines, and boy was it steep and never ending. We were in dismay at another climb to get back over to Wet Side. Late for booked meal, but fantastic circuit

Graham Coules walked up Great Carrs on April 23rd, 2017 [weather] Perfect

Iain Jones climbed Great Carrs on July 29th, 2015 [from/via/route] Great Langdale National Trust Campsite - 27 August 2017 - The Wainwright 60 - Day 7 (Coniston)

Andrew Joss bagged Great Carrs on July 23rd, 2017 [from/via/route] Coniston [with] Barbara [weather] Sunny with a little cloud

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. . . see all 33 walk photographs & pictures of views from, on or of Great Carrs

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