Great Carrs
Height: 780m/2,558ft
Grid Reference: NY271009
Lists: FRCC (048) Wainwright (S.11)
Ascents: 8
Wainwright's Southern Fells guide book published in 1960 states Great Carr's height as 2,575ft but the OS 1:25,000 map now records 780m (2,558ft)
Great Carrs summit cairn
Great Carrs from Swirl How
Halifax Bomber crash memorial, Great Carrs
Those that lost their lives on 22nd October 1944
Sun 12 Oct 2014 - Grey Friar from Wrynose Pass
Wrynose Pass - Wet Side Edge - Hell Gill Pike - Little Carrs - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Wet Side Edge - Wrynose Pass [4.75 miles 1,750ft ascent]
Sat 26 Mar 2011 - Five Coniston fells
Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Coniston) - Low Water - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Levers Hawse - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Levers Hawse - Levers Water - Boulder Valley - fell gate [8.50 miles 3,050ft ascent]
Sat 3 Feb 2007 - Coniston Fells
Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Coniston) - Low Water - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Levers Hawse - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Prison Band - Swirl Hawse - Wetherlam - Black Sails - south ridge - Levers Water - Boulder Valley - fell gate [9.50 miles 3,650ft ascent]
Sun 4 Jun 2006 - Seathwaite Tarn Round
Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Seathwaite) - Walna Scar Road - Brown Pike - Buck Pike - Dow Crag - Goat's Hause - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Levers Hawse - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Seathwaite Tarn - fell gate [10.00 miles 3,500ft ascent]
Sat 30 Oct 2004 - Wetherlam and the Carrs
Low Tilberthwaite - Birk Fell Hawse - Wetherlam Edge - Wetherlam - Black Sails - Swirl Hawse - Prison Band - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Little Carrs - Hell Gill Pike - Wet Side Edge - Greenburn - Little Langdale - Low Tilberthwaite [8.25 miles 3,200ft ascent]
Wed 1 Oct 2003 - Seathwaite Tarn Round
Walna Scar Road, fell gate (Seathwaite) - Seathwaite Tarn - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Levers Hawse - Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man - Goat's Hause - Dow Crag - Buck Pike - Brown Pike - Walna Scar Road - fell gate [10.00 miles 3,500ft ascent]
Fri 9 Nov 2001 - Coniston Fells
Coniston - Lad Stones - Wetherlam - Swirl Hawse - Prison Band - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Fairfield - Grey Friar - Fairfield - Levers Hawes -Brim Fell - Coniston Old Man - Low Water - Coniston [11.20 miles 3,810ft ascent]
Mon 28 Dec 1992 - Coniston Fells
Coniston village - Walna Scar Road - Walna Scar - White Maiden - Walna Scar - Brown Pike - Buck Pike - Dow Crag - Coniston Old Man - Brim Fell - Swirl How - Great Carrs - Little Carrs - Grey Friar - Swirl How - Wetherlam - Coniston village [14.00 miles 4,675ft ascent]