Approach: Take the path up Grisedale to just beyond Elmhow then move left to pick up the feint zig zag trackto a platform. Move right again and pick up another feint track to another platform and onwards to the scree slope. Climb alongside the scree to the obvious jumble of boulders that marks the start of Pinnacle Ridge.
Route: The route starts from a cairn by the side of a gully and takes the series of blocks forming the edge of the buttress. The buttress becomes more exposed as you climb higher above the gully, but the rock underfoot improves as you get higher, giving solid foot and handholds. The first obstacle is the large block ahead like a gun barrel sticking out above a slab wall. Climb the slab below the gun until it becomes too smooth for to make easy headway, then move right behind an obvious large block.
Follow the crest of the ridge up to a large pinnacle, which you bypass by moving left. Behind the pinnacle take a greasy corner in the steep wall ahead before moving left and out of the corner. Move back right to rejoin the crest of the ridge and continue to a slab on the left. Climb the slab to rejoin the crest of the ridge and continue on exposed ground to a large slab which merges into a slab wall. Move left over the top then downclimb another slab to gain an easy vegetated slope. Move left again to steeper ground and climb the large blocks to the top.
The summit of St Sunday Crag lies a short distance off to the right, with options to contune on to Cofa Pike and Fairfield if time allows.
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