Tag: crag
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Buckbarrow
The very prominent line of crags overlooking Nether Wasdale. Not a true summit but merely the hacked rocky end of the south ridge of Seatallan. Long Crag, Pike Crag and Bull Crag are the names. I read there is an interesting Grade 2** scramble but alas no sign of the recommended path, bracken rules. Open…
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Hanging Stone, Ryston Nab
Hanging Stone, overlooking Hutton Lowcross. one of the many Deltaic sandstone outcrops along the scarp of the moors.The name is pretty common, presumably because like other crags from below it appears to hang over the valley. Ryston Nab, the nose on which its on, has a more interesting name being documented in the 14th century…
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Turkey Nab
Turkey Nab is actually at the cairn in the top left of the photo. Where Ingleby Bank and Battersby Bank meet. This disused sandstone quarry to the south of the nab is often used as a rock climbing venue. Not over popular it does nevertheless provide some interesting routes. It is said the name, Turkey…
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The Sheep Walk
A view familiar to Cleveland Way Walkers and Coast to Coasters. Both long-distance trails pass through this gap between outcrops of rocks collectively known as The Wainstones. The climbers refer to the gap as the Sheep Walk, although sheep will need to resort to scrambling to climb it. A Danish chieftain was supposed to have…
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Scot Crags
Scot Crags in Scugdale, although probably better known as Barker’s Crags which are strictly the crags beyond the next dry stone wall. All told including Stoney Wicks almost a kilometre of hard sandstone crags, very popular with serious rock athletes and beginner groups alike. Something for everyone. And today, December 6, is the Feast of…
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Odin’s Hill
Roseberry looking benign but on the summit, I could barely stand upright and as hurricane Ophelia passed us by, the bloody sun finally giving way to blue skies. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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White Hill
White Hill, or perhaps better known as Hasty Bank, although I think that name actually refers to the Bilsdale side. Anyway the site of the 1872 landslip which wiped out the old Stokesley to Bilsdale road. I won’t repeat the history here, just refer you to my earlier post. Looking down on the Cleveland plain…
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Roseberry’s eastern crag
Rendered in black and white this photo contrasts the lichen-covered rocks of Roseberry’s eastern crag. Lichens are everywhere yet are often overlooked. They thrive in a variety of environments, are long-lived with a very slow growth rate but are sensitive to moisture, pH, minerals and air quality. They are actually two organisms, a fungus and…
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Highcliff Nab
From Bousdale Wood, near Pinchinthorp. A sandstone crag overlooking the town of Guisborough. On the northern edge of the North York Moors and a popular climbing venue, first ‘discovered’ for climbing in the 1930s. There is a Mesolithic site just beyond the summit. The Nab must have made a fine lookout for the hunters over…
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Greenhow Bank
A sultry evening view towards Botton Head where the forestry plantations are systematically being clear felled. The Ingleby Incline, a former railway incline, can be seen ascending the bank right to left. Greenhow Bank is capped by a series of crags and rock outcrops over a distance of a hundred metres or so. This crag, with…