The Froggatt-Curbar escarpment is the second grandest of all the Eastern Peak District Edges, eclipsed only by Stanage, and offers excellent climbing throughout the grades. Froggatt Edge forms the northern end of the escarpment and offers dozens of high quality low and middle-grade routes, as well as a number of extremely hard and scary face/slab climbs, which should not be undertaken lightly.
Froggatt’s crowning glory is undoubtedly its pinnacle, one of the most impressive mini-summits in the Peak.
Conditions and Aspect: Other than the occasional sidewall, the whole escarpment has an orientation of west/southwest and basks in any available sunshine from early afternoon onwards. Much of the crag has an open aspect (even more so after some recent, sanctioned tree-felling) making it extremely fast-drying after rain showers.
Note: although this group of topos is named ‘Froggatt Edge Routes’, we have also featured a number of the more notable boulder problems, especially those which lie on the edge itself, rather than in the boulder fields below. More detailed coverage of Froggatt's bouldering can be found elsewhere on 27Crags.
