Eel Crags The Lake District

Eel Crags is really only the name of the craggy northern face of the mountain over Coledale Pass

, and the 2,649 summit is merely the top of that crag. The name is very generally applied to the entire mountain, as I have here so applied it, simply because there is no other, and the practice is convenient and may be allowed to pass, but I do not think that it is strictly correct.

Anyhow, I went on at once to Sail, 2,500 feet, the next peak eastwards. From Eel Crags there is a very steep descent, and then for a short distance a narrow knife edge ridge, which is almost sporting but with no sort of difficulty. Twenty minutes brought me to the top of Sail, and then I sat down for a second lunch and a good rest. The mist had now quite passed over, but there was still a good deal of it lingering over the mountains to the east and south. The view was very fine, but was consequently not quite so fine as it ought to have been. Scawfell and the Pike were not visible, and I could only just distinguish the familiar massive top of the Gable.

It was a beautiful day to be on the hills, but it was certainly rather too hot for the toil of the ascent. Then on over Scar Crags, 2,205 feet, and in about three quarters of an hour from Sail I was standing on the little knob of Causey Pike, which is such a familiar feature in almost all the views round Derwent water and Keswick. I had never climbed it before, but it was so familiar to me from a respectful distance, that I felt an elation at finding myself on the summit, that was perhaps a little ridiculous and, at any rate, out of all proportion to its very modest height of only 2,000 feet.

The descent of the upper storey of Causey Pike 'is very steep, and quite the most sporting bit of the day's work, but it wag soon over, and in a few minutes I was walking along the ridge towards Rowling End, looking for the easiest way down to the road near to Stair postoffice, which was in full view down below. From here there is a very fine view to the right up the Newlands valley, backed by the Eel Crags of Newlands, Dale Head, Hindscarth and Robinson. West, describing the road from Keswick to Buttermere, says that is passes under Rawlingend (a brawny mountain). A very curious adjective to apply to a mountain, even if it were one, and it is only 1,422 feet. How can a mountain be brawny ? Also he mentions nearer to Buttermere, a naked furrowed mountain of an orange hue. It sounds dreadfully indecent, and perhaps it is as well that it appears to have vanished from off the face of the earth. At any rate, I know these hills fairly well by now, but I do .not remember ever seeing one of an orange hue, whether naked or otherwise.

by: Adrian Vultur

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