It just seems that Forum Topics can Migrate easily to other areas
Not completely a bad thing to happen? but we have strayed a longish way from the pleasures to be found on the Rannoch Wall....apologies to the original Poster.
We have now arrived in Borrowdale the home of many accessible crags. Black Crag Buttress came into the picture yesterday...not only just gives folks a chance to blow their horn but, for me, also it revives pleasant memories of those, far better cragsmen than I ever became, that I shared those grand days out on the crags with.
The mentioned Troutdale Pinnacle is very fine with a memorable finish that is also shared, after the left traverse, with the more direct route. My thoughts then migrated to a crag nearby that was reached from behind a rather up-market? hotel.
Fools Paradise was recommended to us. What I recall of that route was a second pitch with a diagonal slight descent and then later a pitch that looked as if some sort of brownish solidified glass like material from the bowels of the Earth had landed up here. The entire valley seemed to be garnished with many classic climbs many of them even more accessible than the two mentioned on here.