Bogle Crag just nudges 745 feet (aka 227 metres) somewhere along the grassy plateau that forms what can loosely be called its 'summit'. It is the second highest point in Grizedale, although it feels like an easier climb than High Bowkerstead, given that it is a much broader hill, a sort of humped mass dominating the eastern side of the forest. Climbing (or indeed descending) the eastern flank on the main Bogle Crag Trail would have once upon a time brought you face-to-face with Keith Rand's impressive sculpture 'The Passage', a small building with a huge piece of timber sticking out of it, reaching across to a giant wooden stake.

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Born to a military background, Keith Rand came to sculpture later in life, after a stint working at Ordnance Survey as a cartographic surveyor. He graduated from the Winchester School of Art and went on to become a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, among other places. He came to Grizedale in 1993 and made just the one piece, but he went on to have his work displayed at the Guggenheim in Venice. Sadly, Rand passed away in 2013, aged only 56.

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The photo at the top of the page was taken in the mid-nineties, but now the forest has engulfed the sculpture. The big piece of timber and the stake are no more; the little house was still there last time I looked but it may be gone now too.