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Brown Cove Crags

Cumbria, ENGLAND

Climbs 17 – Rocktype Rhyolite – Altitude 800m a.s.l – Faces N

Crag features
A Large broken crag with mainly easy routes but potential for short technical pitches. Comes into winter condition quickly and is popular.

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Guidebooks
Lake District Winter Climbs (2006), Winter Climbs in the Lake District (1997)

Climbs at this crag

Sort climbs
 Climb nameGradex
1Left Parallel GullyI *46
2Right Parallel GullyI 25
3Parallel Gullys RibII 17
4Right Buttress CrackIII *119
5Central GullyI/II 209
6Summer Scramble/Stepped RidgeIII *70
7Stepped Ridge2 43
8Left ButtressII 53
9Left Buttress Variation finishIII 20
 Climb nameGradex
10Left BranchII 94
11Central Buttress3 19
12Two GroovesIV 6 **48
13Grade I ish gullyI 40
14Fêler putainIV 4 *1
15Summer step *II 4
16Arête Between Parallel Gulley's *I  
17Left Parallel Gulley *I 1

* Climbs listed in red are waiting to be checked by a crag moderator, and may not be accurate.

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Access notes
Environmentally sensitive flora. About 60mins walk from the Swirls car park. Easy access from the top of the Crag to the routes on the Red Tarn Face of Helvellyn via Swirral Edge.

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Would concur with the poor route diagram. Central Gully is shown in the wrong place!
Ghastly Rubberfeet ? - 01/Mar/10

A note needs to be made to avoid confusion on this route. This winter line, as described and as shown in the topo of the 2006 Cicerone Winter guide, does follow the line of a Summer Scramble called 'Brown Cove Crags Central Buttress' as described by R.B Evans in his 'Scrambles in the Lake District' - (Cicerone 1985). It does this almost perfectly and to the letter. It does not, however, in any way follow the summer scramble of 'Stepped Ridge' which is also described by Evans in 'More Scrambles in the Lake District' (Cicerone 1990). This line is found on the Right Buttress not the central one. Confusion, I think, has arisen because both summer scrambles involve a through route, however, the Riley's Window move of Central Buttress is certainly distinctive enough and definitely the one followed by the winter line. Confusion has also arisen, in my view, over the topo for the crag in the new FRCC Winter Guide being wrong, in marking left branch and central gully in the same place, this differs from Birkett’s guide.
jimorothy ? - 16/Feb/10