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Jack's Rake

Jack's Rake by Jim Barter.
Jack's Rake is the most famous ascent of the Pavey Ark precipice. It is classified as a Grade 1 scramble, but it is within the capability of many walkers, though it does require a head for heights and is considerably harder in bad weather.

The rake starts beneath the East Buttress at the precipice's eastern end, near a large cairn (with a tablet marked 'JWS 1900') immediately north of Stickle Tarn, and then climbs west across the face of the crag. The rake follows a natural groove in the precipice face and is clearly indicated by several Ash trees.

Wainwright wrote that for fellwalkers Jack's Rake is "difficult and awkward", although there is "curiously little sense of exposure, for a comforting parapet of rock accompanies all the steeper parts of the ascent".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavey_Ark 

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RoystonVasey  Pro User  says:

and at most weekends the path is clearly marked by a string of people in orange cagoules and red socks....
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Jim Barter  Pro User  says:

it sure is! you can even make a couple out in the photo!

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Earthwatcher  Pro User  says:

Great photo, Jim! The textures on the sunlit patch are superb.

I went up Jack's Rake once, many years ago, very early one summer's morning when the whole rock face was in warm sunshine and there was no-one else around.

I don't think I could do it now though - knees are just too stiff :-(
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