Trowbarrow on Wednesday and Trow Gill today. What’s a Trow?

We thought the weather might be better towards the east, so we chose Yorkshire Limestone today. We opted for Trow Gill to try out some of the sport routes.

It was quite busy. There were 30+ climbers there, with a constant stream of walkers going past on their way (presumably) up Ingleborough. Also, something familiar to us, a steady flow of cavers/potholers on their way to one of the Gaping Ghyll entrances passed by. It’s five years since we last did Wades Entrance, our favourite way into GG, but in total we must have walked up that path kited out in our caving PVC boiler suits dozens of times.

Anyway, back to the climbing, luckily most people were climbing routes much harder than we could attempt, leaving the easier ones free for us…

We managed four routes before Pete fell off and hurt his finger, and before I got too cold.

It’s a good venue, although there isn’t much there for me to lead right now, but I think with a bit of practice on the bravery front I’ll find a few more routes there for me.

Beautiful blue bell woods on the approach from Clapham