 Although not one of the best-known Lake District fells and strictly speaking it is just the southern shoulder of Kentmere Pike it earned a separate chapter in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells due to "“Its characteristic roughness…rocky outcrops are everywhere on its steep slopes”".The ridge from Shipman Knotts to Kentmere Pike climbs due north as far as the cairned top of Goat Scar (), before turning north-west to complete its journey.A wall follows the ridge although in places it zigzags abruptly off the watershed.