Bat Run Cumbrian Traverse

[MorganW]

Nice one Bill.

[Baggins]

NE ridge off Great End (needs crampons just now)

North West!

North West ridge off Great End not NE

[lantern rouge]

Bit of an epic there Bill... have to admire your navigation... in low cloud I have been known to waste 10 minutes on my route to work.

Take my hat off to yer

[SteveR]

Excellent run, I'm very impressed.
I've still got a score to settle with that route after dropping out at Crinkle Crags last May and slinking my way back to Eskdale (where I was staying) after 5 hours in the mist. Back in Lakes in early summer so maybe another crack at it then.

[Mark G]

Please can anyone confirm if the expectation/requirement for this route is just to visit Long Top in the Crinkles? (as per Langdale) so a route around the others (as per Langdale) is OK, albeit in the opposite direction?
Thanks

[Baggins]

Please can anyone confirm if the expectation/requirement for this route is just to visit Long Top in the Crinkles? (as per Langdale) so a route around the others (as per Langdale) is OK, albeit in the opposite direction?
Thanks

The grid reference on Gofar is for Long Top so yes you only need to visit that one.

[Mark G]

Thanks for that, hoping to have a go at Easter.

[RobW]

Superb, Bill. I guess this could explain why you seemed a bit tired the following weekend in Wales

Belatedly checked out the details on gofar - looks nice.

[Baggins]

Superb, Bill. I guess this could explain why you seemed a bit tired the following weekend in Wales

Belatedly checked out the details on gofar - looks nice.

Just a bit

Its a great route, I loved the fact that it stays high up, well worth doing.

[stevebirkinshaw]

I completed the Cumbrian Traverse unsupported on Easter Monday (5/4/10) in 7:45.

I was staying in West Cumbria and so got the train to Foxfield and walked the 3 miles to Broughton Mills. It had been raining all night so underfoot conditions were very slow, with soft snow higher up, but I was helped considerably by a strong southerly wind.

I forget my compass and with cloud right down navigation was tricky to start with but I did not waste too much time. Fox Haw (between Stickle Pike and Caw) is not on the route but I could so remember if it was so I went over it anyway.

I missed several of the best lines in the low visibility and with snow around and I did not see anyone until the top of Bow Fell after over 4 hours. Climbing Great End was hard work in the deep soft snow with the wind blowing me sideways and by the top I was very cold. I decided not to risk the straight route to Styhead but returned to Esk Hause. I struggled in the snow and wind going up Great Gable but after that the weather improved and with the wind behind it was great.

It was an excellent route and a good day out.