Scafell Crag

Climbs 135 – Rocktype Rhyolite – Altitude 790m a.s.l – Faces N

Crag features
Pronounced Scawfell, this is a superb high mountain crag best visited in warm and dry weather. Many excellent routes of which the three stars are awarded to Botterills Slab(VS), White Wizard(E3), Ringwraith(E5), Saxon(E2), Moss Gill Grooves(MVS), Moss Gill(S), Hopkinsons Gully(MVS), Moss Ledge Direct(MVS), Woodheads Climb(MS). Length of routes is up to 120m.

Weather forecast

Today	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
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Forecast for this crag, or UK Weather forecast

Guidebooks
Lake District Winter Climbs (2006), Scafell Wasdale & Eskdale (1996),
Out of print: Scafell, Dow & Eskdale (1988)

Climbs at this crag

	Climb name	Grade	x

1	Lords Rake	I	5
	LEFT OF CENTRAL BUTTRESS
3	Rake's Progress	I	1
4	North or Penrith Climb	M
5	North Climb	III
6	The Hanging Chimney	HVS 5a
7	Collier's Climb	D
8	Collier's Climb Original Start	HS 4c
9	Keswick Brothers' Climb	VD **	1
10	Tricouni Slab	S 3c *	3
11	Tricouni Slab (Winter)	IV 6	1
	CENTRAL BUTTRESS
13	Burning Bridges	E4 6a **	1
14	Mephisto	E4 6a *
15	Subaudition	E3 5c	1
16	Shadowfax	E4 6a **	4
17	Botterill's Slab	VS 4c ***	78
18	Botterill's Slab (Winter)	VI 7 ***	10
19	The White Wizard	E3 5c ***	9
20	Ringwraith	E5 6b ***	1
21	The Nazgul	E3 5c **	9
22	Original Sin	E6 6c *
23	Foxshooter	E4 5c *
24	Central Buttress	E1 5b **	58
25	Judas Priest	E5 6a
26	Saxon	E2 5c ***	27
27	Anglo	E1 5b *	1
28	Moss Gill Grooves	MVS 4c ***	77
29	Moss Gill Grooves (Winter)	V 6 *	1
30	Long Stand	VS 4c *
31	Narrow Stand	HVS 5a *	2
32	Last Stand	E1 5b
33	Slab and Groove Route	VS 4c **	12
34	Harvest	E2 6b	1
35	Harvest Crunch	VII 9 **
36	Central Buttress Girdle	HVS 5a *	1
37	Moss Gill	S 3c **	19
38	Moss Gill (Winter)	V 5 ***	13
39	Clockwork Orange	HVS 5a
40	Mechanical Orange	VIII 8
41	Colliers Chimney	V 5 ***
	PISGAH
43	The Gripe	HVS 5a *
44	Pisgah Buttress Direct	S 3c **	8
45	Pisgah Buttress Direct (Winter)	V 6 ***	7
46	Moses Trod	S
47	Sacrificial Squaddies	E2 5b *
48	Bos'n's Buttress	VS 4c *
49	Restless Natives	VI 6
50	Bridge of Sighs	V 5
51	Pisgah Ya Bas	HVS 5a
52	Steep Gill Grooves	VS 4c
53	Steep Gill Grooves (Winter)	V 6
54	Steep Gill	V 4 **	5
55	Steep Gill Direct start	V 5 **
	THE PINNACLE
57	Right Wall of Steep Gill	MS
58	Low Man by the Right Wall of Steep Gill	V 5
59	Slingsby's Chimney Route	VD **	18
60	Slingsby's Chimney Route (Winter)	V 5 **	5
61	The Waiting Room From Steep Gill	MVS 4b *
62	Pinnacle Face Route	VS 4b
63	Leftovers	VS 4b *	1
64	The Left Edge	VS 4c
65	Bushwhacker	E2 5c *
66	Hopkinson's Gully	MVS 4b ***	17
67	Hopkinson's Gully (Winter)	VI 7 **	1
68	Moonbathing	VI 7 ***
69	Jone's Route Direct from Lord's Rake	HS 4a **	24
70	Jones's Route Direct (Winter)	VII 7 **
71	Direct from Lord's Rake to Hopkinson's Cairn	S 4a **	7

	Climb name	Grade	x

72	Moss Ledge Direct and Jones' Arete	VS 4c ***	24
73	Right-Hand Edge and Pinnacle Face Direct Finish	HVS 5b **
74	Meridian	E1 5b *
75	Low Man From Hopkinson's Cairn	D	1
76	Edge Hog	E1 5b
77	Jones' Route from Deep Gill	S	1
78	Gibson's Traverse	VD
79	Gibson's Chimney	S
80	Slab Climb	VS 4c
81	Bold Eagle	HVS 5a
82	Central Route - Deep Gill Slabs	HS 4b *
83	Jones and Collier's Climb	VD
84	Woodhead's Climb	MS 3c ***	7
85	De Selincort's Finish	MVS 4c
86	Thompson's Route	VD **	2
87	Professor's Chimney	D
88	Age Concern	VI 7
89	Centre Route	VI 6 **
90	New Professors Chimney	II/III
91	Old Professors Chimney	II *	1
92	Impunity Slabs	D
93	Impunity Slabs (Winter)	III *
94	Slab Finish	II **
95	The Girdle Traverse	MVS 5a **
96	The Girdle Traverse (Winter)	VII 8 ***
97	Deep Gill	I/II	6
98	West Wall Traverse	I	6
	DEEP GILL BUTTRESS
100	Upper Deep Gill Buttress	MVS 4b *
101	Upper Deep Gill Route	II *
102	Great Chimney	IV 4
103	The Scarlet Pimpernel	E4 6a *
104	Upper West Wall Climb	S
105	The Unforgettable Fire	HVS 5a *
106	Ixodes	E1 5b *
107	Def Arete	E7 6b **
108	Alamogordo	E5 6a **
109	The Great Chimney	VD
110	Swillshark	E2 5c *
111	Jacob's Ladder	HS 4a
112	Jacob's Ladder (Winter)	V 6
113	West Wall Climb	VD **	1
114	West Wall Climb (Winter)	IV 4 **	1
115	Doctor Death	E1 5a
116	Grey Bastion	VS 5a *
117	Insomnia	E1 5a
118	Morpheus	E1 5b *
119	Sleeping Crack	VS 4c
120	Gobsite	VS 4c
121	Great Western	IV 4 ***	3
122	Sod's Law	VI 6 **
123	Sodom	V 6 *
124	Sod All	III
125	Eye Spy	V 4
126	Dharma Armour	III 4
127	Chimney Stack	IV 4
128	Deep Gill Integrale	III 3 ***	6
129	Insomnia Route	VS
130	Swan Song	E2 5c **
131	Xerxes	HVS 5a *
	RIGHT OF DEEP GILL BUTTRESS
133	Castor	M
134	Castor (Winter)	II/III
135	Pollux	VD
136	Pollux (Winter)	III
137	Moby Dick	MVS 4a
138	Red Gill Wall	MS
139	Red Gill Buttress	VD
140	The Banister	M **
	SHAMROCK
142	Gilt Edge Eliminate	E1 5b **	3