Doe Crag, Intermediate Gully. Scawfell Pinnacle, High Man (direct from Deep Ghyll). Gimmer Crag, B route. The Abbey Buttress, Great Gable. Screes Great Gully (direct). Doe Crag, North Gully. Gimmer Crag, A Route. Toreador Gully, Buttermere. Birkness Chimney, Buttermere. Warn Gill, Buttermere. Haskett Gully, Scoat Fell. Doe Crag, Easter Gully, O. G. Jones’ Route. Scawfell Pinnacle _viâ_ Low Man by Deep Ghyll, Gibson’s Chimney. Scawfell Pinnacle by Deep Ghyll, O. G. Jones’ Route. Kern Knotts Crack. North Face Pillar Rock, by Hand Traverse. Doe Crag, Easter Gully, by Hopkinson’s Crack. Doe Crag, Central Chimney. Eagle’s Nest Ridge, Great Gable. Doe Crag, Easter Gully, by Broadrick’s Crack. Walker’s Gully. C Gully, the Screes. North West Climb, Pillar Rock. Scawfell Pinnacle (direct from Lord’s Rake), O. G. Jones’ Route.
In every expedition the party should be provided with a sufficient length of rope--varying from twenty to fifty feet for two men, thirty to eighty feet for three--according to the character of the climb and the lengths of its individual pitches. It is very unwise to dispense with the rope, even on simple courses; the fact is patent in the Alps that amateurs take a long time to learn how to look after their portion of the rope when busily engaged on rocks; they are apt to leave all such details to the guides in front or behind them, and would do well to practise regular independence in that respect.
Ice-axes are generally necessary during the colder months of the year. They are inconvenient to manipulate on very difficult rocks, whether the climber is going up or down. But in the rapid descent of easy crags, face outwards, they are invaluable as aids to balancing; and steep grass or scree can undoubtedly be descended better with their assistance. The Cumberland crags are too smooth to make _scarpetti_ (_Kletterschuhe_) worth trying. These are rope-soled shoes that grip better than nailed boots when the texture of the rock-surface is sufficiently rough, but our expeditions are best made without them.
The Pikes of Scawfell are bold and picturesque, but their precipices are slight and climbers can find but little on them that needs the use of a rope. One genuine exception must be made in favour of Pike’s Crag, the rock that guards the Pikes end of Mickledore. Here a good deal of practice may be obtained, and although in comparison with Scawfell Crag over the way we may feel that everything is in miniature, yet the quality of the work is good and some of the pitches really severe. Few people seem to have troubled to examine the detail of the cliff until September, 1894, when Messrs. Fowler and Wilberforce spent a few days on it, and prepared the effective diagram of the lines of route that they subsequently transferred to the Wastdale book.