Quote Originally Posted by kevspider View Post
Robinson ascent...
Looking at some photos on the website, it seem like the most popular route up Robinson is to follow the official footpath that joins the ridge about 600m before the summit.
I've always found this route a real bind (just can't seem to get my head around it) and I'm thinking of getting up onto the ridge ASAP (from memory ther is a path just after the last gate /stile) then following that to the summit.

Has anyone got any experience of this? Is it significantly longer (and slower)?
I went up "early" last year and had to cross some scree and shimey around a little crag

I'll be leaving it a little later this year - there seemed to be a way up that was 100% grass.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8011535...7604637599232/

I think this will be my line - I went up around 150m before this line last year and reckon it cost me a minute or two.