Fell & Rock Climbing Club

The topo of Brantrake Lower Crag, Page 29 of Eskdale guide, is poor, inaccurate & incomplete. Poor as the crag is moving into shadow, inaccurate as The Crack takes the line of Catkin, 4 Catkin HVS 5a. The Crack is better illustrated on Page 154 of Lake District Rock guide. Incomplete as the lines of both Catkin & Cat’s out the Bag are omitted, previously submitted but deleted from Latest New Routes. The line of Cats Eye/Linbeck Crack took several hours of cleaning & showed no sign of a previous ascent. A route comment was made on Cats Eye as to being Linbeck Crack & a link provided, which proved unable to be downloaded & nothing noted in the archives, now deleted, as are the entries to Latest New Routes, a very common practice in the post Covid era. Further no entry of Linbeck Crack noted in the previous 1996 edition of Scafell, Wasdale & Eskdale Guide Page 326 though The Mantleshelves is recorded in the supposedly same year. Those wishing an improved topo & descriptions of the omitted routes, try U K Climbing. Dick Baker