I would say I'm normally not fantastic with heights
eggs wrote:If you follow some of the discussions you may notice that there are 3 possible routes up Anne. The official route is the most exposed and that is the only one I have been on all the way to the top.
We have been up the western gully approach which had virtually no exposure - but due to incoming weather, we did not work out the last stage at about 10m below the summit.
The columns were certainly larger at that stage, but no big cliff faces. There were some cairns leading into this gully and a lot of big boulder hopping in going around the mountain to the gully.
I am also aware of a way up from the North East by traversing on grassy shelves and then climbing a short gully to intersect the main route at about the end of the amazing shelf running along the top of the eastern cliff face.
It would be a short exposed scramble up from there. I don't believe there are any indicators for this route.
eggs wrote:We have been up the western gully approach which had virtually no exposure - but due to incoming weather, we did not work out the last stage at about 10m below the summit. The columns were certainly larger at that stage, but no big cliff faces. There were some cairns leading into this gully and a lot of big boulder hopping in going around the mountain to the gully.
Geevesy wrote:Although I initially followed cairns around the western flank, I lost them about 10m vertically from the summit.
north-north-west wrote:The photo makes that rock look even worse than I remember. Maybe it's just the angle.
Tortoise wrote:This photo that I borrowed from Nick S shows the trickiest bit pretty well:
it certainly helps if you're tall for that first tricky bit
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