Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
The trod doesn't start until about halfway down to Hare Crag. Basically head along the ridge from the summit of Skiddaw until just after the first steep drop (maybe 100m -150m); bear right to the fence; cross this about 100m before the fence junction (obviously you need to have reccied this in clear weather!!); head downhill to pick up a faint quad bike track after a couple of hundred metres; follow this until it begins to bear left and the trod is on your right. Don't have the bearing to hand - I've the following notes on my site:

You cross the fence where four posts are very close together (four posts in something like 10ft) for the last few years a small length of orange tape has been tied between two of them. Then go downhill on a 72 Degree MB

I keep to the right if anything on this bearing, you will drop down then traverse across the slope before dropping down again, when that happens start moving left as you go down and you should cut across the trod.

My way goes down to the Hare crag trod on the other side of the ridge from Bobs ie the Skiddaw side.