Borrowdale Fell Race

[Swoop]

The plot shows Route A off Scafell Pike - yes, I went that way, but I'm up for route B in the race. Route B is just to the left and I think it comes down beside Dropping Crag - see purple line. I'm sure someone who went down Route B could confirm.

Thanks Marvin. I think you have settled where we all went in the recce.
Huwski's group B, the others A (followed by me about twenty minutes later )

[daz h]

The plot shows Route A off Scafell Pike - yes, I went that way, but I'm up for route B in the race. Route B is just to the left and I think it comes down beside Dropping Crag - see purple line. I'm sure someone who went down Route B could confirm.

tis correct

[Daleside]

phew thanks for helping me sort that out in my head! i know what I did last year - I retraced my steps for about 20metres then took a sharp left to head straight for the edge and down route B - anyway - have fun - I'm not even doing it!

[daz h]

phew thanks for helping me sort that out in my head! i know what I did last year - I retraced my steps for about 20metres then took a sharp left to head straight for the edge and down route B - anyway - have fun - I'm not even doing it!

i thought you was , cmon you know you want to , i want to see you skipping up those hills
you can camp at night as well

[emmilou]

now when you guys went for your reccy the other week - dom said that daz and huwski went one way and sunnysideup , dom and emmilou went another way off sca fell pike - I'm trying to work out which ways you went because dom semed to be convinced that Daz's route involved no back tracking what so ever and therefore daz must have taken something like route C! which looks pretty awful to me - (not particularly becasue of the steepness but cos of the size of the boulders you have to cross lower down) so does that mean that the sunny, dom emmilou group went down route B and no one (on your recce) went down route A......???

Route B doesn't look too bad on this picture Daley! must be the angle

Anyway - why aren't you doing it

[Tussockface]

[QUOTE=alwaysinjured;46367]
I use the straight line to grey knotts ( not far from the fence , just deviating from the fence line left to stay on grass - well worth doing) then from left of grey knotts it is straight N for a good line on grass , then swing round in the lower sections to come down a tongue of grass left of the quarry./QUOTE]

Now that the Scafell descent seems to be sorted out, can anyone clear this up for me? alwaysinjured posted it a couple of weeks ago. Trying to follow it on the map, I'm not sure where 'left of grey knotts' is. How far left, and of which part of grey knotts? The summit? It sounds like a good route, and I'd rather hit a grassy line than a rocky one.

[emmilou]

t was indeed a very good and runable line although the speed demons left us slower minions fending for ourselves so we missed the 'perfect' line all the way down and sort of zig zagged although still runable.

huwski wuwsji will be able to zap some technicla infor over the cyber thingy to give you specifics but I can't remember a great deal as a) I was knackered, b)was at the back and c) coouldn't see a bloody thing cos of the clag!

[daz h]

when we past brandreth we just ran down to the fence and kept to the fence line, we didnt cross the first stile and go to the left of grey knotts.

marvin and myself were a little confused but we found a nice run down to honister but we found it to late on
so our group are a little unwise, will veering left of grey knotts really save that much time, im not so sure

[Huwski]

Now that the Scafell descent seems to be sorted out, can anyone clear this up for me? alwaysinjured posted it a couple of weeks ago. Trying to follow it on the map, I'm not sure where 'left of grey knotts' is. How far left, and of which part of grey knotts? The summit? It sounds like a good route, and I'd rather hit a grassy line than a rocky one.

PM me an email address and I'll send you a trace of the route I took last time.....

Or wait till Sunday and I'll PM you a trace of tomorrows....

[Tussockface]

Thanks everyone. Have PMd Huwski.