Scout Scar, also called Underbarrow Scar,[1] is a hill in the English Lake District, west of Kendal, Cumbria and above the village of Underbarrow. It reaches 771 feet (235 m).[2] Scout Scar is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland,[1] but the summit he describes is a lower summit at 764 feet (233 m), 270m south of the highest point.[3][4] Wainwright's anticlockwise recommended route also includes Cunswick Scar at 679 feet (207 m).[5] The higher summit of Scout Scar has a topographic prominence of 109m and is thus classified as a HuMP, a hill with a prominence of at least 100m.[3]
Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar are both formed of Carboniferous Limestone and dip gently towards the east with a steep western scarp slope.[6]
At the lower, southern, summit there is a shelter, locally known as "The Mushroom". It was built in 1912 as a memorial to King George V, and restored in 1969[1] and again in 2003.[7] The structure includes a toposcope indicating the Central Fells and other landmarks.
- ^ a b c Wainwright, A. (1974). "Scout Scar". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 2–7.
- ^ "Scout Scar". Peakery. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Scout Scar". Hill Bagging. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ "Scout Scar (Wainwright summit)". Hill Bagging. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ "Cunswick Scar". Peakery. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ "Geology Factsheet" (PDF). Lake District National Park Authority, Education Service. p. 3. Archived from the original (pdf) on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ Griffin, Harry (20 October 2003). "Country diary: One small step". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2012.