Crag Band View 25m VD
Posted by: David Scott-Maxwell, 27.03.202424.03.2024, Dave Scott-Maxwell An easy angled quite clean slab high up on High Close overlooking Crag Band on the North side of Tongue House High Close North Buttress. Location: 54.37064N, 3.16816W. Start at a boulder jamming a gully & climb a short clean rib, pass a grass ledge & then take the main slab straight to the top. Quite easy but only a single runner, mid-height (climbed & gardened onsight), The route ends just below the summit of North Buttress. Picture is of Andy Gittins following FA.
For anybody bemused by lat/long and using a map, this transposes ( using BGS app) to 24207 97866 ( 10fig to 1 metre).
FWIW, I studied surveying for my engineering degree, used coordinates intensively for most of my working life and been navigating on the hills for the best part of 60 years. I still find it all a bit confusing.
Also worth mentioning, for anybody without a gps device, OSLocate, a free app, gives a 10figure grid ref without requiring a mobile signal.
Can also be set up for 6+8 figures and lat long and other features. I find the grid ref pretty accurate, have checked it against survey station nails rated to 20 mm. The compass and altitude are a bit less confidence inspiring.
Other apps available.
Didn’t know about OS Locate – super useful – thanks Rick!
This route located only be aligning Scafell with the bottom of the dip in the top of the Duddon valley behind from the belay