TR: Jack's Rake

Today, my 14 year old son James achieved two ambitions in one walk - to
climb Jack's Rake and also The Lion and The Lamb. The weather really
was fabulous - we couldn't have asked for better - which ensured he
enjoyed the whole thing! Photo's are posted:

http://www.stridingedge.net

Regards,
Sean

Sean McMahon said:

Today, my 14 year old son James achieved two ambitions in one walk - to
climb Jack's Rake and also The Lion and The Lamb. The weather really
was fabulous - we couldn't have asked for better - which ensured he
enjoyed the whole thing! Photo's are posted:

http://www.stridingedge.net

Great pic's thanks, Sean, and particularly the perspective of Stickle
Tarn, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark.

I did Jack's Rake again a couple of months ago, and it scared me half
to death 🙂

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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:09:50 +0100, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

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http://www.stridingedge.net

Great pic's thanks, Sean, and particularly the perspective of Stickle
Tarn, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark.

I did Jack's Rake again a couple of months ago, and it scared me half
to death 🙂

What is scary about it?

It looks OK in the photos...... or am I not seeing what those of you
who have done it are seeing?!

Judith

Judith said:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:09:50 +0100, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

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http://www.stridingedge.net

Great pic's thanks, Sean, and particularly the perspective of Stickle
Tarn, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark.

I did Jack's Rake again a couple of months ago, and it scared me half
to death 🙂

What is scary about it?

It looks OK in the photos...... or am I not seeing what those of you
who have done it are seeing?!

It's very steep, narrow and exposed in places.

I'd always be scared doing it because of my problem with heights, but
that was exacerbated when I did it a couple of months ago by the fact
that I was carrying a 50L sack with my w/e backpacking kit in, and I
got stuck in a particuarly narrow bit.

I just could'nt get any further, and got to the stage where I was
truly wondering whether I'd be able to hang on long enough for the MR
to pick me off - it was genuinely frightening. Fortunately, though,
one of the blokes I was with (had just met them earlier that morning)
was v. good with heights. He left his day sack and descended, I
managed to wriggle out of my sack and pass it to him, he lifted it
over the obstruction and I was able to go down a step and up by
another, more exposed but less narrow route. It really was very
exciting, once I'd got over the naked terror.

The lesson is not to do it again with a large sack. At the time I felt
the lesson was not to do it again under any circumstances, but I'l
have another go this year, I think, minus the impediment 🙂

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...but the REAL worst bit of yesterday was negotiating the two dead,
rotting sheep - hard not to chunder at those!! A big highlight for a 14
year old lad though which gave us endless threads of
conversation...lol!!

Sean

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Quoted message said:

Today, my 14 year old son James achieved two ambitions in one walk - to
climb Jack's Rake and also The Lion and The Lamb. The weather really
was fabulous - we couldn't have asked for better - which ensured he
enjoyed the whole thing! Photo's are posted:

http://www.stridingedge.net

Nice pics, Sean. Theo R. and I couldn't do Jack's Rake this year but perhaps
another time.

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Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

Quoted message said:

Today, my 14 year old son James achieved two ambitions in one walk - to
climb Jack's Rake and also The Lion and The Lamb. The weather really
was fabulous - we couldn't have asked for better - which ensured he
enjoyed the whole thing! Photo's are posted:

Great set of photos from a stunning day out by the looks of it.

How did you get down to Calf Crag from High Raise? Was it via Low White
Stones and Greenup Edge, or a more direct route?

Also, what camera do you use Sean? It provides some great photos.

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Sean McMahon said:

..but the REAL worst bit of yesterday was negotiating the two dead,
rotting sheep - hard not to chunder at those!! A big highlight for a 14
year old lad though which gave us endless threads of
conversation...lol!!

Yuk... had they fallen?

(Poor things!)

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Nice pics, Sean. Theo R. and I couldn't do Jack's Rake this year but perhaps
another time.

Thanks Theo, Jack's Rake is definitely worth a visit.

Sean

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Great set of photos from a stunning day out by the looks of it.

Thanks, it was a great day out.

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How did you get down to Calf Crag from High Raise? Was it via Low White
Stones and Greenup Edge, or a more direct route?

Yes, Low White Stones - Greenup Edge and across to Calf Crag.

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Also, what camera do you use Sean? It provides some great photos.

It's only a bog standard sony digital compact, but nice of you to say!

Regards,
Sean

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Yuk... had they fallen?

I guess so - no way up or down for them in places, and a grizzly end!

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(Poor things!)

As opposed to us who were (nearly) poorly things!!

Sean McMahon said:

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(Poor things!)

As opposed to us who were (nearly) poorly things!!

:-)

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Peewiglet said:

Yuk... had they fallen?

One of them nearly landed on me a copule of weeks ago....

Climbing the rake on a wet day (2/3 August?), I made my way past the
lower dead-and-very-smelly one, to find a very fresh dead one above me.

When I reached the top, I chatted to the guy who'd been climbing 100m
ahead of me. In conversation it transpired that he'd only been faced by
*one* dead sheep, but had seen an unhappy cragfast one above the path.

In the space between us going up, the cragfast sheep had plummetted
(cue Monty Python etc) to its death.

I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Tom

Tom said:

I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...

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Interesting timescale - two weeks to become a putrid, maggot infested
corpse (just one of the many threads of discucssion we had!).

Sean

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:52:05 +0100
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Tom said:

I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...

Eh?

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A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Judith said:

What is scary about it?

There is at least one point where your average person might tremble,
namely the rucksack-jamming spot mentioned by PW, and the exit at the
top. Even the 99% safe part of the ascent gives you the feeling of
being next to a rather scary drop. But it's a very, very nice bit of
scrambling.
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Tom said:

I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...

Eh?

Beeeh, beeeh, beeeh, slip, beh?, tic, tac, tac tic, toc, splash, crush.

Farewell cruel world, beeh, bee......

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On 19 Aug 2005 03:11:55 -0700, "Tom" <[email hidden]> wrote:

>I wouldn't like to speculate on the effect of being hit by a falling
>sheep while on an exposed bit of the rake...

Scary, but imagine how it felt for the sheep...

Eh?

Beeeh, beeeh, beeeh, slip, beh?, tic, tac, tac tic, toc, splash, crush.

Farewell cruel world, beeh, bee......

Yup, something like that 🙂

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