E A Baker’s Moors Crags & Caves of the High Peak and Neighbourhood is a fantastic document of Peak District climbing at it’s very beginning, before any guidebooks had been published to the area.
In the chapter Scrambling on Derbyshire Crags, Baker gives “a list of the best-known scrambles… graduated according to their relative difficulty”. For not entirely persuasive reasons he leaves out routes from Wharncliffe and Staffordshire but, despite the title of the chapter, does include some routes from from Leicestershire (Breedon) and Nottinghamshire (The Hemlock Stone), all seven of which are now either banned or have been quarried away.
Fans of tutting about grade inflation will be pleased to note that the ancient definitions of Easy, Moderate & Difficult are nothing like those used today.
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Map of routes in this ticklist
Distribution of grades - Trad
Top 12 photos of this ticklist
Boulder Climb
Johnny Dawes on the Inaccessible Pinnacle, Robin Hood Stride
© Gordon Stainforth
The Shoulder Route
A summers evening solo of the Alport Stone.
© MarkRoe
Stonnis Crack
© Duz Walker
Boulder Climb
Boulder Climb, Robin Hood's Stride
© Gordon Stainforth
Steeple Arete
Steeple Arete at Harborough - Katie topping out as Anna belays.
© David Millington
Steeple Arete
Cat soloing steeple arete
© Peakology
South Gully
Marc putting the full body jam to good use
© Mark Treeby
Stonnis Crack
© Duz Walker
Spider Chimney
climbing up the spout
© led
Spider Chimney
Fun in the chimney
© chikadi
South Gully
South Gully a nice little climb
© Mark Treeby
Steeple Arete
First weekend leading, at Harborough
© ianlaw