Pennine Lines w/c 20 oct 2025

So what is it about the eastern grit edges that make them so special? Clearly the proximity to the city is a big part of it, not least because it’s allowed so many of us to experience these places in the first place, we’ve been up there in all weathers, we’ve seen the snow, the flowering heather and we’ve experienced that golden light at the end of a long day’s climbing, trying to fit in that one last route in the fading smokey dusk light before dark. The eastern grit crags are often referred to as an escape, an escape from mundane urban life. I’m not convinced this is the entire picture, painting them as some sort of bonus add-on, and optional extra.