Quote Originally Posted by Lefty View Post
Many years ago in the Edale Skyline race in particularly bad weather I collapsed unconscious near to the checkpoint at Edale Cross. I was young and inexperienced in those days and clearly didn't understand the early symptoms of hypothermia or Exposure as it was called in those days. Luckily I was spotted going down by the checkpoint marshals who were the local MRt. When I came to I was inside a tent in a sleeping bag with another person in the bag with me warming me up. I was then taken down Jacobs Ladder strapped into a stretcher.Not a pleasant experience. Back at the hall the place was like a war zone with lots of people there in various stages of distress.
Inexperience and a lack of proper knowledge nearly cost me my life on that occasion. Experience is something that is hard earned but knowledge is something that can be gained by study etc or better still by speaking to others.
Edale can be foul. I have done in serious ice and snow, horizontal sleet, and oddly in baking sun too! If it was around the mid nineties lefty, it could been a day I did it which I remember as particularly cold!

It kind of proves a point. Having access to a safety tent and warming up stuff, particularly at a pinch point on a course can save a life.

Edale cross is just such a place, so would the col from ill bell to high street, so would the col from causey to sail, or sail to eel. So would black sail on wasdale. Without getting into desparate ground, it is hard to miss them, provided you do not drop off steeply on either side. So easy(er) to find. A lot of the tops and ridges down are so wide you can miss the top completely. Judith? High Street? A lot of the cols are narrow.

Edale always has managed to get a lot of marshalls out. Not so kentmere,sailbeck etc.