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Northern Exile
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Snoot - do I need to update the sidebar??
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I’m not quite sure which route we went up Barf, but it seemed to go vertically up for around a mile and involved a fair amount of scrambling. We were going to add Graystones as well, but Mr HB had a broken toe and I had a broken finger which really didn’t enjoy scrambling, so felt we were pushing our luck slightly
Northern Exile
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I think you'd know if you went up Slape Crag as there is one particular scramble with a lot of exposure to the left. Keswick MRT blackspot.
flanker
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Trying to remember how I've been up in the past. Is the "normal" route W along the gill from Bassenthwaite side, then NE up skirting Slape?

I think that's the way we went with Dave & Stu, and unknown to (most of us) K carrying a very small Stu junior!). I've still got the scar on my arse from that day out!

I've also been up by The Bishop at some point in the dim and distant.
phal
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Only four miles, wasn’t it F? 🤣🤣🤣
Northern Exile
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Yes, that's right. The problem is that for years there's been a signpost to the bottom of Slape Crag and people naturally think that's the correct way to go. To access the scramble up Slape you do have to climb the lower screes and pass The Bishop (it would be on your right).
stuart little
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It was definitely only 4 miles Phal ;)

There are 2 things I remember from that walk - Flanker sliding down the fellside, and Special*K endlessly harassing me to find her tomato soup!
flanker
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[I should point out that it was Stu's K, not Kinky, carrying a foetal Stu Junior!]

Ta, NE. I remember that scramble past the Bishop vaguely. I only seem to remember most things vaguely these days!

Just 4 miles 🤪😂🤣 Although I've just dug out the route in my log, and it says 11.39. How peculiar.
phal
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Strange that 🤣🤣🤣
Snoot
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NE - yes please 51/214

runnyeyes - looks like you went up the same wall I came down from Whinlatter, my legs have some nice scratches from that little bit!!

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