Fat Charlie's Buttress is a little outcrop at the bottom of Langstrath, a lovely valley which is an offshoot of Borrowdale. I had walked under it on numerous occasions and we decided to give it a go; partly because Luke was still hungover after a night out and didn't fancy the walk up to Corvus. There was a very interesting Severe that I elected to start on; it said delicate and it was very delicate indeed. Everything was there; apart from gear which was missing for a lot of the route although a good friend does protect the crux sequence. The problem was the crux involved a very small overlap which meant that one could not see your feet - and the climbing was all in the feet.....
I wobbled a bit at first but then gave myself a bit of a talking to and got up the climb....Luke then did an extremely good job of leading up a Mild Severe (Islay Waits) in the middle of the buttress....to be honest it is more like VDiff than Mild Severe, nonetheless a very good lead....
This was followed up with a pint of tea at the cafe in Grange and a lovely evening with Claire before coming home....a great day.
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