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What a beautiful day. I had considered wearing winter trousers; thank goodness I didn’t, because shorts would have been appropriate. With John, Annette, Scouser Dave (with whom it was a pleasure to talk film, theatre, and exotic food – he’s written lots of cookbooks) and a few people I had never set eyes on before, I went up Helm Crag, round via Calf Crag, Sergeant Man, and Easedale Tarn ticking off four Wainwrights….
Non-climbers scrambling on the hard bit
… and ending with a dip in Easedale Tarn:
Yes, it was bracing (= f******* freezing).
The day ended with a few leisurely pints of real ale in Tweedie’s Bar in the beer garden of the Dale Head Hotel, Grasmere. This doesn’t look particularly promising but it actually has a huge selection of real ales, some quite obscure and some old favourites e.g., Yates’s Fever Pitch >yum<
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8 Responses to “Helm Crag”
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Great looking weather, not so sunny in south, we even had a heavy rain shower!
…and there’s no way you would have got me in that water!
Anna, good to see you learnt from your little hypothermia experiment in Red Tarn
Agree with Pete about the weather, it looked very dark over the Lakes yesterday from Penrith and we had squally thundery showers running through in the afternoon – strange
Obviously, the sun shines on the good and it rains on the wicked!
Apparently, the walk was the weekend before, but was only blogged this weekend. Makes much more sense now
Oh Jon you shopped me!
You mean this Helm Crag?
‘Flarepath’ (VS) classic of the crag!
Yes but being on a WALK we just wandered past it down below (there was another ex-climber there as well as me)
You’re not an “ex-climber”, I have recent photographic proof here…
http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2008/11/27/farewell-to-arapiles-for-now/