Saint Sunday Crag
Height: 841 metres / 2759 feet Grid reference: NY 36930 13404 Category: The Eastern Fells
Height: 841 metres / 2759 feet Grid reference: NY 36930 13404 Category: The Eastern Fells
Another fine and warm day today for a climb up to Saint Sunday Crag using a new route (for me) to the summit, Pinnacle Ridge, a serious and quite challenging technical grade 3 scramble.
Height: 858 metres / 2815 feet Grid reference: NY 34629 13063 Category: The Eastern Fells
The promised clear weather never materialised today, in fact it was the opposite as the clouds and clag closed in as the day went on. I was looking forward to this one as a new route for me, I must go back and do it on a fine day as I think the views would be brilliant from Greenhow End.
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