Sharpe edge
Bencathra

 

a walk I have completed three times
but I feel I should do this scramble more often

 

 

approaching the start of the ridge

easy scrambling to start

the scrambling starts to get good

   

looking back down
the ridge from near
the top of the scramble

 

Sharpe Edge is graded as a grade 1 scramble with ***

according to the "scrambles in the Lake district" book
it is "Lakeland's sharpest ridge"

 

an gentle path leads
from the top of Sharpe edge
to the summit of Blencathra

the ridge still looks good looking back

the summit of Blencathra with Ullswater behind

an unusual triangulation summit

Blencathra is 868 meters

   

we descended
by the easy
Scales Fell ridge

looking back up to Sharpe edge as we descended the ridge

the final descent back to the car

 

 

above and left
two previous crossings of Sharpe edge

left in 1981
above c. 1990

 

 

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