SCAFELL PIKE via PEN an Epic Scramble from Eskdale (The Lake District)

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Pen is a spur on the east side of Scafell Pike. 
And offers a great viewpoint of the wild rock scenery and down into Eskdale. 
There are several routes to the top of Pen, including:
Thor's Buttress: A climb that takes about 2.5 hours from the valley bottom to the top of Pen. It's recommended to use a rope for the more difficult sections. 
Little Narrowcove: A route that some say is a good alternative to the popular route that ascends steeply via the far left.
And today's route featured in the video The left side that involves finding a faint path to the left of a stream and then an easy walk to the summit. 
Once at the top of Pen, it takes about an hour to reach the summit of Scafell Pike. 
Routes to the mountains from Eskdale are known for being long and over challenging terrain. 

Scafell Pike is one of a horseshoe of high fells, open to the south, surrounding the head of Eskdale.
It stands on the western side of the cirque, with Scafell to the south and Great End to the north.
This ridge forms the watershed between Eskdale and Wasdale, which lies to the west.
The narrowest definition of Scafell Pike begins at the col of Mickledore 831.6 m (2,728 ft) in the south, takes in the wide, stony summit area and ends at the next depression, Broad Crag Col, c. 877.6 m (2,879 ft).
A more inclusive view takes in two further tops: Broad Crag, 935.3 m (3,069 ft) and Ill Crag, 930.9 m (3,054 ft), the two being separated by Ill Crag Col, 882.3 m (2,895 ft). This is the position taken by most guidebooks.
North of Ill Crag is the more definite depression of Calf Cove at 853.4 m (2,800 ft), before the ridge climbs again to Great End, 909.5 m (2,984 ft).
Scafell Pike also has outliers on either side of the ridge. Lingmell 807 m (2,648 ft), to the north west, is invariably regarded as a separate fell,
while Pen, 760 metres (2,490 ft), a shapely summit above the Esk, is normally taken as a satellite of the Pike. Middleboot Knotts is a further top lying on the Wasdale slopes of Broad Crag, which is listed as a Nuttall.
The rough summit plateau is fringed by crags on all sides with Pikes Crag and Dropping Crag above Wasdale and Rough Crag to the east.
Below Rough Crag and Pen is a further tier, named Dow Crag and Central Pillar on Ordnance Survey maps, although known as Esk Buttress among climbers.
Broad Crag Col is the source of Little Narrowcove Beck in the east and of Piers Gill in the west.
The latter works its way around Lingmell to Wast Water through a spectacular ravine, one of the most impressive in the Lake District.
It is dangerous in rain and treacherous in winter, as when it freezes over it creates an icy patch, with lethal exposure should you slip.
Several accidents and some deaths have occurred in Piers Gill.
Broad Crag is a small top with its principal face on the west and the smaller Green Crag looking down on Little Narrowcove. From Broad Crag, the ridge turns briefly east across Ill Crag Col and onto the shapely pyramidal summit of Ill Crag.
Ill Crag and its associated crags overlook Eskdale.
Scafell Pike has a claim to the highest standing water body in England in Broad Crag Tarn, which (confusingly) is on Scafell Pike proper, rather than on Broad Crag.
It lies at about 820 m (2,690 ft), a quarter of a mile (400 m) south of the summit. 
Foxes Tarn on Scafell is of comparable height.

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