Quote Originally Posted by Swiss Toni View Post
I'd be very interested in finding the route Ali describes, it sounds like a shorter version of the foxes tarn diversion and will check it out on my next (clockwise) recce. If i find it, i'll take some photos and pop some lines on them before posting them.

ST
There are two climbers' trods beneath East Buttress, you need to take the lower one - the upper one begins with a very steep grass/rock short climb and is the one usually used to access the climbs. It ends at a rock wall.

On this page http://www.frcc.co.uk/rock/newroutes...es/scafell.htm about a quarter of the way down is a photo of the East Buttress (search for the text "New Horizons", the shot is just below.

At centre bottom of the shot an area of light rock may be seen slanting up and right. Going leftwards from the same point is a grassy line that leads to the edge of the shot about a third of the way up from the bottom corner. This is the line to take. It comes out directly at Foxes Tarn and avoids having to drop right down to pick up the gully containing the outflow of the tarn. It saves around 50m of descent/ascent. (note that the upper incorrect line begins at a vaguely orange patch of vegetation up and right of the start of the correct trod - it is the next break rightwards in the rocks).

Coming the other way, and this is from memory so may be incorrect, you descend to Foxes Tarn and then cut left to find a couple of small cairns from where a short scramble down over easy rocks leads to the traverse.

I'll be doing this section both ways this summer so may have to rely on this myself