Cold Pike

About Cold Pike

Cold Pike is a satellite of Crinkle Crags, standing above the upper Duddon Valley in the central Lake District. It just clears 700 metres, enough to carry Hewitt and Nuttall status alongside its place on Wainwright's list.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cold Pike (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 54.423, -3.138. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn perched on tor. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

06-Feb-22

Drop measured from

NY 2582 0379 · 654 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Cold Pike is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 654 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks