Quote Originally Posted by alwaysinjured View Post
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.
The infamous Skyline in question was covered by Marshals and MR, all the CP had shelters/first aid kits. even so Edale cross was so over run with Hypothermic runners that Kinder team was called out to help evac runners.

I'm not disagreeing about Cols being an obvious spot and you probably have more local knowledge than me and that is always important but cols are also the windiest spots on most ridges, how many "Windy gaps" are there? Not the best place to seek shelter.

Can you not get the local MR out to the wilder CP's we(Woodhead MRT) use them as training days to work on logistics and comm skills.