Originally Posted by
alwaysinjured
Edale can be foul. I have done in serious ice and snow, horizontal sleet, and oddly in baking sun too! If it was around the mid nineties lefty, it could been a day I did it which I remember as particularly cold!
It kind of proves a point. Having access to a safety tent and warming up stuff, particularly at a pinch point on a course can save a life.
Edale cross is just such a place, so would the col from ill bell to high street, so would the col from causey to sail, or sail to eel. So would black sail on wasdale. Without getting into desparate ground, it is hard to miss them, provided you do not drop off steeply on either side. So easy(er) to find. A lot of the tops and ridges down are so wide you can miss the top completely. Judith? High Street? A lot of the cols are narrow.
Edale always has managed to get a lot of marshalls out. Not so kentmere,sailbeck etc.