"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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markhallam - Apr 21, 2014 4:19 pm Date Climbed: Apr 18, 2014
Excellent scrambleSet out very early on a cool clear spring day from Borrowdale side - up over Esk Hause and then down into Great Moss. Route finding looked to be tricky so I climbed a few hundred feet up eastern side of the valley to eyeball the route properly. This was a helpful exercise - managed to piece it all together from brief guidebook description. Very enjoyable hard scramble/easy rock climb up to top of Ill Crag - then on over Broad Crag to Scafell Pike (3rd visit) - and then the long haul all the way back to Borrowdale.