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The zigzag cleft splitting the Langdale face of Crinkle Crags makes an excellent warm weather alternative route to the top. You'll feel like a Victorian explorer discovering the source of a jungle river, or a salmon fighting upstream on the Darwinian quest, but with significantly less risk from poison darts or grizzly bears. Like many of the world’s other great religions and philosophies, the key teaching in gill-scrambling is acceptance: your day truly begins when you commit to the first knee-deep wade. In hot weather, the cooling presence of water to three-quarters height makes attaining the ridge a lot more enjoyable.

6.40 miles, 10.30 km, 838m ascent, 3 – 3:30 hours. Ambleside

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