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« Thread Started on Mar 4, 2011, 2:28pm »
Hello,
I've recently uploaded quite a few videos on youtube of me going across Sharp Edge (unfortunately many are in typical poor Cumbrian conditions).
Anyway, I thought that some of you might like to see what it's like on those sort of days. Others are in the snow and some are on clear days,inversions with broken spectres,at sunrise,etc.
I live local to it and have been across it about 300 times in the last 7 months. It wasn't until about late December that I started to take a camera with me.
Unfortunately my camera broke on February 16th and since then I've had to use one with little memory and so it cuts off after about 2-3 minutes or so.
You might find some of them a bit boring due to this and the rain, visibility,etc but they show it as it is (no music,editing,etc) just me breathing,the wind,etc and a dog.
To view them go to youtube and just type in Blencathra Sharp Edge 2011 and they some should come up. Putting in 2011 is the important part!
My account there is Lonscale Pike. I'm no computer or youtube expert however but I know that to view them you have to put in 2011 along with Sharp Edge Blencathra!
Thanks and I hope that they might be useful to some of you.
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« Reply #1 on Mar 4, 2011, 8:20pm »
click this link to view all dockrays vids

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Blencathra+Sharp+Edge+2011&aq=f


hope this helps ;)

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« Reply #2 on Mar 5, 2011, 9:02am »
Thanks a lot for the link Rob
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« Reply #3 on Mar 5, 2011, 11:21am »
Love it. I've never crossed Sharp Edge so it's great to see what it is like.
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« Reply #4 on Mar 5, 2011, 12:47pm »
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Your videos make Sharp Edge look an easy stroll - perhaps too easy? :-/

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« Reply #5 on Mar 5, 2011, 6:53pm »
Hi Derek,
It's not always easy to go across it.
Anyone could easily have an accident on it including me. The weather has a big impact on the surface. The people who say that it's easy have probably only been across it on a sunny dry day or when there's lots of fresh snow on it.
On Wednesday for example it was a nice sunny dry day but the frost had left the north side of the ridge still frozen and quite a few people thought that it would be a nice easy day to cross it. However quite a few turned back and didn't cross it. I've attached a photo (looking east) and you can see that the southern side is dry but the north side(in the shade) still has the forst on it. Ironically this is this side that most walk on. The frost stayed there all day.
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« Reply #6 on Mar 5, 2011, 8:15pm »
Wow, some compelling viewing here! Love just hearing the wind and weather and your breath too. Dog amazing.

On the videos you do seem to just glide over the edge on either side, it is not quite that simple, particularly in wet condition!!

300 times in 7 months!!! How do manage that then?? Need to know the secret of so much fell time!

Do you vary ascent routes too on Blencathra, or is it always up and presumably down Sharp Edge?

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« Reply #7 on Mar 6, 2011, 10:00am »
Hi David,
I live pretty near to it and can see it from the house that's why I go there so much. I can get up there before and after work. Also in autumn and winter I have more free time to get out and about,now though I'll be a lot more busy with work.
I mainly go the same couple of ways (from Scales or Mousthwaite). The dog likes it up there also. There's a little tarn between Atkinson Pike and Hallsfell which he likes to sit by.
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« Reply #8 on Mar 6, 2011, 10:35am »
hi dockray

just like to say i spent all of last night looking at all your films on the edge and think they are brilliant ;D

i haven't done sharp edge yet and am planning a go in the summer so thanks to watching your vids i feel like i know the route all ready :D

thanks for posting and keep them coming

PS any chance i can borrow your dog so i don't go the wrong way :D :D :D

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« Reply #9 on Mar 6, 2011, 12:55pm »

Mar 6, 2011, 10:35am, ROB wrote:
hi dockray

just like to say i spent all of last night looking at all your films on the edge and think they are brilliant ;D

i haven't done sharp edge yet and am planning a go in the summer so thanks to watching your vids i feel like i know the route all ready :D

thanks for posting and keep them coming

PS any chance i can borrow your dog so i don't go the wrong way :D :D :D

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I think we'd all like to be as sure-footed as the dog!! ;D

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« Reply #10 on Mar 6, 2011, 4:14pm »
HI, thanks for posting this. I too have done Sharpe Edge but only about 3 times, correction on one occasion we had to turn back due to adverse weather conditions.I was surprised to see you attempt it in the thick snow and apparently from what I could see without crampons. :o Would you do it again in such conditions ???

We took a video the last time we crossed , I must dig it out and post. :D
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« Reply #11 on Mar 6, 2011, 6:34pm »

Dockray

Thanks for your response. Not bad living so close to such a fab ridge then!!! I'm just a bit green!!

Thanks again for posting up the vids, great viewing.

Ray - all depends on the snow and ice conditions of course. Crampons useless in thick soft snow!

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« Reply #12 on Mar 7, 2011, 9:05am »
I agree about the crampons. I wouldn't use them in thick snow especially on a rocky ridge. The summit seems to be the place for them but some seem to think that Sharp Edge must be the place for them! I saw some pretty scary things during this winter with people wearing them up there. Also the Skiddaw slate rock is really fragile up there and unfortunately it has taken a bit of a battering this winter due to ice axes and crampons.
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« Reply #13 on Mar 7, 2011, 9:27am »

Mar 7, 2011, 9:05am, dockray wrote:
I agree about the crampons. I wouldn't use them in thick snow especially on a rocky ridge. The summit seems to be the place for them but some seem to think that Sharp Edge must be the place for them! I saw some pretty scary things during this winter with people wearing them up there. Also the Skiddaw slate rock is really fragile up there and unfortunately it has taken a bit of a battering this winter due to ice axes and crampons.


Thanks for the information Guys. I think personally with my track record ::) I will not be attempting it in snow or ice, crampons, spikes or bare feet ;D forum members of two or more years will get my drift. ;)
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Re: Sharp Edge,Blencathra videos(no editing)
« Reply #14 on Mar 7, 2011, 9:46am »
On the subject of "airy" ridges, I found this YouTube clip of my namesake mountain. Hats off to the guy with the camera pole - there are a few places along there where two free hands are needed - at least.

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