Editing Cold Pike (section)

==Topography==
When travelling clockwise, [[Crinkle Crags]] is the last of the high cirque of fells forming the head of upper Eskdale.  It sends out a trio of ridges to the south, running parallel like the prongs of a trident.  Working from the west these ridges culminate in [[Hard Knott]], Little Stand and Cold Pike.  The Cold Pike ridge begins indistinctly in an area of rocky knolls and small [[tarn (lake)|tarns]] beneath the Fifth Crinkle.  Gradually gaining definition it descends to a broad grassy saddle before rising again to the summit plateau of Cold Pike.  To the north of the saddle is Great Knott at {{convert|2283|ft}}.  This top is considered by most guidebooks to be a subsidiary of Crinkle Crags rather than the nearer Cold Pike.<ref name="wainwright">[[Alfred Wainwright]]: ''[[A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells]]'', Book 4: {{ISBN|0-7112-2457-9}}</ref><ref name="richards">Richards, Mark: ''Mid-Western Fells'': Collins (2004): {{ISBN|0-00-711368-4}}</ref>  Beyond the summit the ridge continues for another {{convert|1/2|mile|m|spell=in|-1}} south eastward before falling steeply over the many tiered crags of Wrynose Breast.

Wrynose Breast stands above the nascent Duddon and the [[Wrynose Pass]] road, which provides the only vehicular link between central Lakeland and the Duddon Valley.  Together with [[Hardknott Pass]] to the west, Wrynose is the latest incarnation of the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] road from [[Ambleside]] to the port of [[Ravenglass]].

To the west of Cold Pike is the Gaitscale Beck, the watercourse separating it from Little Stand.  To the east across a wide low [[mountain pass|col]] is [[Pike of Blisco]], a conical fell with its footing firmly in [[Langdale]].  The source of the River Duddon flows south from this col, curving westward around the foot of Wrynose Breast.  To the north is Red Tarn, a feeder via Oxendale of [[Great Langdale]] Beck.  Red Tarn is an elongated pool whose stony bed can be seen through clear shallow waters, reputed to hold trout.<ref name="blair">Blair, Don: ''Exploring Lakeland Tarns'': Lakeland Manor Press (2003): {{ISBN|0-9543904-1-5}}</ref>  It forms a focal point for walkers as the wide path from the summit of Wrynose Pass down to Stool End runs beside it, a further path branching off across the outflow to Crinkle Crags.