Bob Graham Route Choices

[alwaysinjured]

Then it must be quicker to go up as well instead of going via the path by the stream when coming from Skiddaw?

I doubt it, because it is on the wrong line for the descent from Skiddaw -
the stream path is pretty good these days for ascent:but it might be worth trying. Also, whilst the path is good on the way down, the lower part is difficult to see from below. You will see what I mean when you try it.

Why was it unpleasant?

If you get the right line, which is to go almost to the second peak before descending, it is short grass all the way down to the nose, it is steep enough to mean that you cant do much more than walk.

The descent from the nose (50 feet) is both shaly and slippy, and beware of a sheer drop of 10 feet at the bottom! , so traverse left of the stream! and the valley floor at the bottom is a thrutch. alternating sides of the stream. I also tried a traverse line on the E flank from the nose and it was no better.

I also think it would be dangerous in the dark!
(The line down middle tongue is right of the rock outcrop at the top, just before the ascent to the second top of blencathra, left of the next outcrop you see, right of the scree that descends steeply from there, over the first nose, and right of the bottom)

I'm all ears

Bill

Will drum up some grid refs.