Up Scafell Pike by way of the Corridor Route
Lingmell Scafell Pike 978m Broad Crag Ill Crag 935m Great End 910m
We had to get up at the crack of dawn to make sure we had enough daylight – 7am which is very early for me.,…and even earlier for Roger . We arrived at Seathwaithe before 9am and were amazed at the number of cars parked all along the road. Eventually it dawned on us that they were all belonging to people who were heading up Great Gable for 11am as it was remembrance day. Another lovely fine day we headed up to Styhead Tarn by the smaller path the scrambles passed Taylorgill force waterfall and easily found the corridor path – surprisingly ut was made up most of the way. Interesting once we were half way up Lingmell we realised that it was in fact Lingmell and not Scarfell as we thought!! I took lots of pictures thinking it was Scarfell ……durr! But a brilliant day even allowing for my fall which I thought had broken my wrist and severely effected my camera holding capabilities.
Broad Crag, Scarfell Pike and Lingmell with the deep cut of Piers Gill below
Roger on the Corridor Route with Great Gable behind
Greta Gill
Great Gable – you can see the red screes below Westmoreland Crag
All the people on the top of Great Gable
Great Gable and Green Gable with Styhead Tarn peeping through
Lingmell behind me
Great Gable with Kirk Fell behind
Looking down Piers Gill 
Lingmell, Kirk Fell and Great Gable
Lingmell
Styhead Tarn from Lingmell
Scarfell Pike
Broad Crag
Ill Crag
From Ill Crag
Looking down towards Castle Crag and Derwent Water
Striding Edge and Swirrel Edge
The forecast was good and it was right! Sunny and not a breath of wind…We drove up to greenside mine to park the car and then made the discovery that I had left the butties on the kitchen table but as we set off to contour round to the hole in the wall we decided to drop down to Patterdale to buy some as the thought of just mini mars bars was too much – and as it turned out not very nice ones as they must have got melted on gimmer crag last month during the late heat wave. We stopped at Greystones cafe and had a coffee and cake while we waited for them to be made. We retraced our steps…..then went along striding edge up Helvellyn and down Swirrel edge to Catsyle Cam….wonderful……….
Catsyle Cam and Swirrel Edge behind Roger
Helvellyn and Striding Edge
Red Tarn
Just below Helvellyn Summit
Looking down Swirrel Edge to Catsyle Cam
On the top of Catsyle Cam
A Classic Day in Langdale
We set off with such confidence up Middlefell Butress Diff and Curtain Wall on Raven Crag. We then climbed up and traversed round to Gimmer – a much easier approach than I remembered.
Once we got to Gimmer we dropped down and climbed up to the start of Ash Tree Slabs VD. There was a bit of a queue but we sat and eat our butties and waited. The first party was making very slow progress but eventually we it got to our turn. Ash Tree Slabs was much more demanding than I remembered and I was glad I had my new rock boots! – we also underestimated the amount of small gear and extenders that we would need so I was scraping the barrel at bit towards the end of the first pitch which was very exposed and interesting. The next route we dropped a bit of a **** as we didn’t have the right book with us which I think lead to us getting totally lost on Oliverson’s variation and Lyons crawl….we are still not sure where we ended up climbing but we ended up a good groove…….one to go back to I think. Mind you I did find a number 5 walnut.
Roger at the top of Middlefell Butress
First Pitch of Ash Tree Slabs
Top of Gimmer we lived to climb another day!
Hutton Roof:- Climbing and a Picnic
Kai and Blair came with us and we brought a picnic. It was so hot could have been high summer.
We climbed
Dexter Wall HS 4c – Roger lead
Hebe VD – lead with Kai
Serpent MS – Roger lead
Pegasus VS 5a – Top roped
Roger and Kai on Pegasus
Which Crag! Shepherds Crag……..
Well we set off to Black Crag with the intent of climbing up Troutdale Pinnacle but when we got there it was very wet and greasy so we decided to walk round to Shepherds even though we thought it would be very busy – which it was! We first decided to have a go at Turning the North VD as there was a bit of a queue for Ardus. But it was impossible to start! so we abandoned it nearly loosing a bit og gear but managing to get it out. We then set off up Ardus MVS 4a 4a 4b. It was excellent although the last pitch traverse was a bit trickier that Roger remembered! as he couldn’t remember whether to go high or low. He went High and I went low!
Roger on the top pitch of Ardus
Crookrise Climbing with Kai
This was a lovely day with Kai, We had forgotten how steep and hard this crag was!. Although the breakfast we had at the little chef did help!
Trust your feet!!!!
We top roped:- Edge HS and Route 1 VS 5a
We then had a go at West Wall HS 4b
Lovely to spend a day with Kai and we had fish and chips on the way home in Settle.
Hutton Roof: A Climbing Afternoon
Last time we came to Hutton Roof we were a bit mobbed out by a large family and a large group. But this time we had the place to ourselves at first which was lovely. It was lovely and sunny and warm.
We climbed the following
I lead:-
Crack Climb VD
The Flake S
I Seconded:-
Pot Belly S 4b
Barrier Roof S 4a
Sendero Luminoso HS 4b
Wrinkled Slab HVD
Solo:-
West Coast D
Farleton Fell: climbing at Farleton Crag
A wonderful sunny day (for a change). We followed the book carefull to try and find the best approach. We did the following Routes
Lead: Monkey Wrench V Diff
Second: Shower Crack – V Diff
Rough Crack – Sev.
The Spoon – V Diff
Probably would have been better to look at the map!
The first day of Rogers week off before he goes back full time…..We planned to scramble up sour Milk Gill and then scramble up Gillercomb Buttress. What we did was climb up the path at the side of Sour Milk gill as it was totally full of water, we then got across to Gillercomb Buttress by stream jumping and squelching but found a decidedly damp buttress so we climbed up the side of that too. We then thought we would follow the ridge round and make a horseshoe of it and come down over base brown. We must be getting used to the scale of Scottish mountains as we began to think that we might have gone to far when we started climbing up more than we expected….some deducting left us thinking we were heading for the top of Green Gable…imagine the surprise when we surfaced at the top of Great Gable! It was misty and we had got the map in the sac!
Sour Milk Gill
Base Brown behind Roger
Looking towards Gillercomb Head and Sour Milk Gill
Gillercomb Buttress
Great Gable Summit
Yorkshire without the book!
We headed to Skipton as the weather was supposed to be better to the east but it was after Lunch – a bacon buttie in Grassington – before it stopped raining! But as the temperature warmed up we headed to Crookrise Crag on Barton Moor. As we approached the path we saw the sign that said – Closed1 due to shooting! and so were the other near by crags, although the woman at the estate office said we could climb on Eastby as long as we didn’t put our heads above the top of the crag due to the grouse shooters…we decided not to risk being shot and changed plan and went to settle and Attermire but with out the book! we headed to a part of the crag we had not been to before called the escarpment we later discovered the following:- “The scree at the foot of the crag is regularly fed by this crag” ! “and some routes were not re-climbed for this guide and are best left the grass!” We headed to what we later found out was windy buttress and it lived up to his name.
We are not sure what route we did but I think it could have been corner climb VD but to be honest it could have been anything.
Our route on windy Buttress
Mountain Days and Photo Nights 