Wolf Crags

Location

N Lakes - W of Ullswater

Details

An excellent site, the best northerly in the district. The site is large and quite extensive with very large, easy top and bottom landings. A good thermal site but with rather daunting terrain downwind. On a half decent day it is common to explore back to Great Dodd and across to Clough Head.

Site Officer

Rick Livingstone : 07761187016

Postcode for Sat Nav Systems (read the Health Warning!)

CA11 0LG - This is the closest mail delivery point to the flying site and is positioned at:

The postcode centre is at Crookwath 500m SSE of the eastern parking area. Only use this postcode if you intend to approach from the east.

Getting There

If approaching from either the front or back of the ridge then follow the A5091 until a minor road leads to High Row. The track starts here and there is ample parking just outside the gate.

Getting to takeoff

If approaching from either the front or back of the ridge then follow the A5091 until a minor road leads to High Row. The track starts here and there is ample parking just outside the gate.

We have a tentative OK to use the track to access the site from the car park but please respect the wishes of any farmers who request you NOT to go through the gate and along the track
A number of different farmers use this track and not all may be happy with us using the track and going through gates at this time.

Permission to use site

The Matterdale Common Conservators and The National Trust

Hazards

Care if scratching the crags. If the wind goes west of north the site produces poor lift and can become increasingly turbulent.

Take Off

Plenty of take off areas along the top of the hill

Landing Areas

Straight forward top landing

Flying

In good conditions it is possible fly to Clough Head and back

XC potential

Excellent potential but with difficult terrain (and a possible lake crossing) downwind.

Photos

Click on the photo for a full size image.

Looking up to the western end of the take off area. 2 hang glider pilots are making the final assault up to the take off plateau. You can take off anywhere between here and the eastern end of the ridge. On this day with a bit of east in the northerly wind, the western end was working better at first

Looking east from the western take off plateau.

A rather hazy view of the Wolf Crags area looking east. A thunderstorm broke 40 mins after. The launch area is along the ridge to the right and you can land along the coach road. Flying back to the car park is the easiest route! Photo by Dave Horne.

Local Information - Pubs/Food etc

Nearest pubs to the site - for post flying debriefing only! You may find details of other facilities here

This page shows records for this site. Some of the older records are not very detailed. More recent records may have an igc file available You can right click and download this to your PC. You can then use IGC Flight replay to view the flight.

Data Resources

Follow the links to see the site in Google Earth and Google Street view. To access the former, you will need to have Google Earth installed on your PC. You can also upload your flights to GE - use GPS Dump (Links Page) to convert a variety of GPS file formats to a GE kml file.

Link	Resource Type	Notes
	Google Earth - Car Park
	Google Earth - Landing
	Google Earth - Landing 2
	Google Earth - Take Off
	Google Street View - Parking	The parking area for Wolf Crags. The track goes through the gate.